The 4-month-old infant's perception of holograms and real objects: A demonstration of equivalence

Abstract

Three experiments were conducted to determine whether 4-month-old infants perceive and respond to holograms as real objects. Infants in the first experiment failed to differentiate between a hologram of a toy car and the real car from which the hologram was constructed. In a second and third experiment, infants responded to holograms of two objects as they did to the real objects. The implications of using holograms in the study of early perceptual development are discussed. © 1984 Psychonomic Society, Inc.