title: Cutaneous pattern perception on foreheads in 3- and 4-year-old children.
abstract: In the present study, we investigated how 3- and 4-year-old children perceived mirror-image stimuli traced on their foreheads. First, the subjects were taught matching-to-sample tasks with symmetrically shaped and asymmetrically shaped figures (called mirror-image stimuli) on cards. Then the subjects were taught cutaneous perception of a figure traced by the experimenter's finger on the forehead. Last, the subjects were tested with mirror-image stimuli in cutaneous perception tasks. The results of these experiments indicated that the subjects who could discriminate the mirror-image stimuli could also perceive asymmetrical stimuli as mirror reversals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Itakura
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005546:Forehead; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014110:Touch