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Describe how reaching and grasping abilities develop in the first year of life.

Describe how reaching and grasping abilities develop in the first year of life. Lecture 7: Development of reaching. Within first 2 weeks, babies already directing arm towards objects. Some crude control of reach direction. Improves by the 5th month; consistently touch targets.

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Describe how reaching and grasping abilities develop in the first year of life.

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  1. Describe how reaching and grasping abilities develop in the first year of life.

  2. Lecture 7: Development of reaching Within first 2 weeks, babies already directing arm towards objects. Some crude control of reach direction. Improves by the 5th month; consistently touch targets. Won’t reach for targets beyond arm’s length. Catching and anticipating target motion at 6 months. Distance accuracy develops more slowly, improving by 7 months.

  3. Sketch the response of the photoreceptors. How do rods and comes differ? How does the response change with light intensity?

  4. Photoreceptor response to light

  5. Rods are more sluggish than cones Response lasts 300msec to over 1 sec 150msec Response lasts 50- 150 msec 40msec Brighter lights lead to a faster response

  6. Suppose you have a random variable, such as height of the UT student population. This population has a standard deviation of S. Take a sample of size N from the population, and calculate the sample mean, M. Do this many times. What is the standard deviation of M? SEM = S/√N Useful website for understanding statistics http://onlinestatbook.com/rvls/index.html

  7. What is visual search? What factors influence search? Lecture 12 – slides 4-18 Process by which a region of the peripheral retina is selected as the target for a saccade(“overt attention”) or simply attended ( “covert attention”) Factors: simple versus complex stimulus properties, number of items, context, Spatial memory

  8. How does visual memory affect perception? Give examples. Affects where you look in a scene. Speeds visual search. May facilitate change detection.

  9. Subjectsshould be moresensitivetochanges in familiarenvironmentsthantounfamiliaronesbecausethememoryrepresentation is well-defined.

  10. Kit et al: 3 days in a virtual apartment searching for objects. On day 3, the color of 3 objects was changed. Question: does the color change attract gaze?

  11. Increased probability of looking at changed objects.

  12. Uke-Karacan & Hayhoe. Ifsubjectsbecomefamiliarwith an environment, arechangesmorelikelytoattractattention? General Design:Subjects walked along a footpath in a virtual environmentincludingbothstable & changingobjectswhileavoidingpedestrians.

  13. Procedure • Twogroups: • InexperiencedGroup No familiarizationtrials • ExperiencedGroup 19 familiarization laps before the changesoccurred

  14. Results Average gaze duration/object/lap • Total gaze duration on changed objects were much longer after experience in the environment. • Fixation durations on stable objects were almost the same for the two groups. Experienced Inexperienced Changing Objects Stable Objects

  15. Effects of Different Changes Experienced Inexperienced Replaced Disappeared Stable Moved New

  16. Change Blindness • Probability of being aware of the changes was correlated with gaze duration on the changing objects (rho=0.59). • Awareness of the changes was low, suggesting that fixations are a more sensitive indicator. • Change blindness in the natural world may be fairly uncommon, because most scenes are familiar.

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