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Detecting and categorizing particular entities in the environment are important visual tasks that humans have had to solve at various points in our evolutionary time. The question arises whether characteristics of entities that were of ecological significance for humans play a particular role during the development of visual categorization. The current project addressed this question by investigating the effects of developing visual abilities, visual properties and ecological significance on categorization early in life. Our stimuli were monochromatic photographs of structure-like assemblies and surfaces taken from three categories: vegetation, non-living natural elements, and artifacts. A set of computational and rated visual properties were assessed for these stimuli. Three empirical studies applied coherent research concepts and methods in young children and adults, comprising (a) two card-sorting tasks with preschool children (age: 4.1-6.1 years) and adults (age: 18-50 years) which assessed classification and similarity ...
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kumulative Dissertation
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 191-218
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Dissertation Universität Potsdam 2021
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Text auf Englisch, Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch
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Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Schlegelmilch, Karola, 1964 - Grass or gravel? Potsdam, 2021
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English
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Hochschulschrift