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Home> Archive> 2024> Volume 14, Number 6, 2024
IJSSH 2024 Vol.14(6): 306-309
doi: 10.18178/ijssh.2024.14.6.1232

The Efficiency in the Spot the Difference Task with Illusory Pictures Solved by Preschool Children

Valeriia Karpinskaia* and Arina Dotdaeva
Institute of Cognitive Studies, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Email: karpinskaya78@mail.ru (V.K.); arina.dotdaeva@mail.ru (A.D.)
*Corresponding author

Manuscript received March 5, 2024; revised April 22, 2024; accepted May 24, 2024; published December 25, 2024.

Abstract—Twenty children,  5 to 6 years old,  were offered a series of paired images. The task was to find the differences in details as quickly as possible. The images could be the same or one picture could be 10% larger than  another, or, one picture could seem larger than another (visual illusion of Ponzo and Delboeuf). The time and the accuracy were measured for each pair of images. Significant differences in visual search were found for images with illusory differences, real differences  in size, and identical ones. Children need more time to make the decision in the pictures illusory different in size. We did not find significant influence of illusion on the accuracy in the task. We suggest to take the factors related to the development of perception or cognition into the account, since it can lead to different results in visual search tasks  for groups of children of the same age.  

Keywords—visual illusions, visual search, preschool children 

Cite: Valeriia Karpinskaia and Arina Dotdaeva, "The Efficiency in the Spot the Difference Task with Illusory Pictures Solved by Preschool Children," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 306-309, 2024.

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