Why kids see a bear or a dog when they see a cloudNovember 1st,
2010 - 12:23 pm ICT by ANI London, Nov 1 (ANI): A new study by
Brit scientist has found that children do not see objects in a
fully grown-up way until the age of 13. While adult brains can
assume that light comes from above when they have to judge
whether shaded images are convex or concave, young children have
to learn this ability, reports New Scientist. Jim Stone at the
University of Sheffield, UK, showed embossed shapes such as
squares and shaded images such as footprints to 171 children
aged from 4 to 10. Each child was shown 10 images and asked
whether they were convex or concave. The “correct” answer
assumed an object was lit from above. The children got better
with age, with the average score out of 10 improving by 0.43
each year. If children of other ages develop at the same rate,
Stone predicts that babies will learn to assume that light comes
from above at about 21 months. But this aspect of their visual
perception won’t be “fully grow