Contribution of stimulus attributes to errors in duration and distance judgments - A developmental study

In Matsuda's 1996 study, 4- to Il-yr.-old children (N=133) watched two cars running on two parallel tracks on a CRT display and judged whether their d urations and distances were equal and, if nor, which was larger. In the pre sent pa per, the relative contributions of the four critical stimulus attri butes (whether temporal starring points, temporal stopping points, spatial starling points, and spatial stopping points were the same or different bet ween two cars) to the production of errors were quantitatively estimated ba sed on the data for rates of errors obtained by Matsuda. The present analys es made it possible not only to understand numerically the findings about q ualitative characteristics of the critical attributes described by Matsuda, but also to add more detailed findings about them.