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  • Title: Perceptual training of height and brightness seriation in kindergarten children.
    Author: Timmons SA, Smothergill DW.
    Journal: Child Dev; 1975 Dec; 46(4):1030-4. PubMed ID: 1201663.
    Abstract:
    A study of seriation was conducted from the perspective of Gibson's theory of perceptual development. Kindergarten children who evidenced little seriation of height or brightness were assigned to either 1 of 3 perceptual training conditions or to a fourth, control condition. Training consisted of nonreinforced same-different judgments to wooden dowels varying in height, or in brightness, or simultaneously in height and brightness. The theoretical rationale for this training was that it would facilitate perception of the stimulus dimension(s) on which the dowels differed. It was found that perceptual training did facilitate seriation, particularly if both the height and brightness dimensions varied simultaneously in training.
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