Unlike adults, children are able to keep information from their senses separate and may therefore perceive the visual world differently, according to research published today.
Scientists at UCL (University College London) and Birkbeck, University of London have found that children younger than 12 do not combine different sensory information to make sense of the world as adults do. This does not only apply to combining different senses, such as vision and sound, but also to the different information the brain receives when looking at a scene with one eye compared to both eyes.
Image: A participant in the vision study.
Credit: Marko Nardini.
The results, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, imply that children’s experience of the visual world is very different to that of adults. link to continue reading
Source: University College of London
