% pubman genre = article @article{item_1555029, title = {{Three-month-olds{\textquotesingle} sensitivity to orientation cues in the three-dimensional depth plane}}, author = {Bertin, Evelyn and Bhatt, R. S.}, language = {eng}, doi = {10.1016/j.jecp.2005.06.007}, year = {2006}, date = {2006}, abstract = {{Three-month-olds are sensitive to orientation changes of line drawings when they have a three-dimensional (3-D) interpretation and when the changes are defined by both 3-D depth and two-dimensional (2-D) picture plane cues [Bhatt, R. S., {\&} Bertin, E. (2001). Pictorial cues and three-dimensional information processing in early infancy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 80, 315-332]. In the current study, we examined whether 3-month-olds are sensitive to pictorial line junction cues that signal orientation changes solely in the 3-D depth plane. The results revealed that infants discriminated a misoriented elongated cube in an array when the stimuli contained both shading and lines (Experiment 2) but not when only lines depicted the elongated cubes (Experiment 1). Testing with comparable 2-D images revealed that, even in the presence of shading information, detection of orientation changes is specific to images that have a 3-D interpretation. Together, the results suggest that 3-month-olds are sensitive to pictorial line junction cues that signal orientation changes in the 3-D depth plane to adults provided that shading information is available and the images have a 3-D interpretation.}}, journal = {{Journal of Experimental Child Psychology}}, volume = {93}, number = {1}, pages = {45--62}, }