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    "pk": 33062,
    "title": "The Abstraction of Relevant Features by Children and Adults: the Case of Visual Stimuli",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "In two experiments, children aged four years and adults \nwere presented with unfamiliar stimuli. They had to \nsegment them into relevant parts. Stimuli presented in a \ncategory shared global shape and features, but each \noccurrence of a potential feature was different. Results of \nthe first experiment show that adults and children found \nthe relevant features despite the differences between \noccurrences of potential features. Children's selections \ndiffered from adults' selections in terms of coherence of \nthe segmentations. In the second experiment, the \nhypothesis that children used the global shape of the \nstimuli to find the relevant features was tested. The \nglobal shape of stimuli was manipulated in order to \nassess its role on feature selection. Results \ndemonstrated that the number of incoherences produced \nby children increased when they could not rely on a \nglobal shape for their segmentation. The results are \ndiscussed in terms of the relative influence of configural \nand featural aspects of the stimuli. It is argued that adults \nrely more on feature identity than children when they \nsegment stimuli into relevant features.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
        "url": ""
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    "keywords": [],
    "section": "17",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34r9b5pg",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jean-Pierre",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Thibaut",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Liege",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1995-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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