title: Development of configural 3D object recognition.
abstract: There is evidence for the late development in humans of configural face and animal recognition. We show that the recognition of artificial three-dimensional (3D) objects from part configurations develops similarly late. We also demonstrate that the cross-modal integration of object information reinforces the development of configural recognition more than the intra-modal integration does. Multimodal object representations in the brain may therefore play a role in configural object recognition.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich, Goethestrasse 31, 80336, Munich, Germany. ingo@imp.med.uni-muenchen.de
authors.forename: Ingo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rentschler
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jüttner
authors.forename: Erol
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Osman
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Caelli
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003867:Depth Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012016:Reference Values