Infants have the ability to detect 'unrealistic' objects at a very young age

If you've ever been fascinated by MC Escher drawings, draw staircases that don't lead anywhere or a waterfall that starts and ends the flow in the same place, which means you're very familiar with what which psychologists call ' unreal ' objects and scenes .

These are pictures or illustrations for 3D objects that have no visual meaning. Certainly, we will open our eyes to those pictures for many times, to try to understand these things that are not possible or obtainable.

Of course, these images are just deceitful images that come from the ability to create 3-dimensional objects from our two-dimensional images. An artist will use techniques such as polishing, shading, composition and similar techniques to make the image three-dimensional and sometimes, in the case of Escher paintings, to make discouraged our ability to understand those photos.

So when do we develop the ability to perceive association in 3D objects? A cognitive scientist at New York University, Sarah Shuwairi, and colleagues are trying to use the stare at this natural, unrealistic object, to determine when in which infants develop the ability to understand 3-dimensional image information from two-dimensional images.

To do this, Ms. Shuwairi recruited 30 4-month-old babies to participate in a series of related tests. With the help of their parents, these babies sit in front of a computer screen displaying ' real ' and ' not real ' 3-dimensional images. During the process, the researchers recorded the time when these babies looked at each picture. As far as the argument goes, if these children are sensitive to image characteristics that make images three-dimensional, they will definitely stare at the photos without meaning. like an adult; that is, they will look at objects that are not real longer.

Objects are not real

The object is real

As a result, these babies look significantly longer than untrue images, suggesting that, at 4 months of age, humans are able to detect at least some of the characteristics. 3-dimensional, features that increase the perception of the coherence of objects.

Ms. Shuwairi explained that this finding is the first discovery to document such early development possibilities, 'providing an important insight into the development of surface marker processing mechanisms. Image-deep, signs allow adults to draw 3D structures from objects of images. 'Basically, scientists now have a tool to help explain how babies develop an understanding of the material world around them.'

Thanh Van