Vision Perception Discovery


Children may process sensory stimuli differently from adults, which may result in their effectively seeing the world rather differently according to researchers at University College London and Birkbeck, University of London.

The new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that children do not combine various sensory inputs as adults do, and are unable to combine perspective and binocular depth perception until the advanced stages of childhood.

Scientists reached their conclusions by asking children and adults to wear 3D glasses to assess perspective. Only children over 12 years old and over, and adults were able to correctly assess perspective. Whereas children under six seem to 'see' objects or dimensions that adults do not.

Researchers suggest that magnetic resonance imaging could be used to map brain changes in children that are linked to the vision perception developments.

15th September 2010

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