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VISUAL-PERCEPTUAL SKILLS
ACTIVIDADES DE ENTRENAMIENTO
DE HABILIDADES VISO-PERCEPTIVAS
Visual Form-Constancy (Basic Level)
Constancia Visual de la Forma (Nivel Bsico)
Authors
Garca-Montero, Mara
Vidal-Lpez, Joaqun
Rodn-Gonzlez, Antonio
Gimeno-Galindo, Patricia
Javaloyes-Moreno, Beatriz
Muios-Durn, Mnica
Rif-Giribet, Montserrat
Codina-Fossas, Marta
Fernndez-Endrino, Enrique
Authors
Garca-Montero, Mara
Vidal-Lpez, Joaqun
Rodn-Gonzlez, Antonio
Gimeno-Galindo, Patricia
Javaloyes-Moreno, Beatriz
Muios-Durn, Mnica
Rif-Giribet, Montserrat
Codina-Fossas, Marta
Fernndez-Endrino, Enrique
ISBN-13: 978-84-692-4349-7
The term visual perception makes reference to the capacity that brain has to
understand and to interpret that eyes see (Gardner, 1986; Scheiman, 1997). Along
with the basic visual functions and motor skills, visual perceptual skills allow us to carry
out many activities of daily life (Chaikin and Downing-Baum, 1997; Erhardt and
Duckman, 2005; Van Waelvelde, De Weerdt, De Cock and Smits-Engelsman, 2004),
and guide our actions (Goodale and Milner, 2009; Jeannerod, 2006).
In our daily lives we do not perceive a world composed of isolated visual stimuli
(edges, lines and points), but for complex scenes and structured stimuli (numbers,
letters, figures and objects, faces, landscapes, etc.) that sometimes are presented in
dynamic conditions. These visual stimuli can be characterized by its attributes, such as
colour, size, contrast, orientation or motion. However, most visual stimuli are
recognized by one essential attribute: the form (Ullman, 1995).
The visual-form constancy is a visual perceptual ability that allows us to detect,
differentiate and select visual stimuli within a given environment, to discriminate or
differentiate them from other stimuli present.
The ability to discriminate forms is an important skill for the person to succeed in
their interaction with the environment, and thus plays an important role in human visual
perception (Bryan, 2004; Ullman, 1995), because it allows the person conducting the
visual recognition of objects, figures, faces, etc. (Jolicoeur, Ullman and Mackay, 1986).
The processing of forms of discrimination takes place in multiple brain areas
related to vision (Gulyas, Heywood, Popplewell, Roland and Cowey, 1994; Ullman,
1995), and the interaction between simple and complex cells of the visual cortex
involved in this kind of viso-perceptual ability, regardless of area of retina that is
stimulated by the observed object or visual stimulation (Kandel, 1985).
It is believed that the form-perception is carried out by two independent systems
(Gulyas et al.; Marsoleck, 1995): a) The visual abstract perception of form system
(VAPF), which processes and stores the visual information to discriminate between
different types of forms, and b) The visual specific perception of form system (VSPF),
which facilitates the representation of a specific form, for example, a person can
visually track their environment to find a pen, without seeking one specific (in this case
VAPF is the operating system) or search for a specific pen (mediated by the VSPF
system) (Zoltan, 2007).
Also, it has been suggested that form perception is carried out, to a greater
extent, by the accumulation of past experiences, rather than (as was thought), by
analyzing the pattern of visual stimulation (Purves, 2009).
Other authors (Fukushima, Kasahara, Kamigaki and Miyashita, 2008) have
reported that discrimination of shapes and objects requires a linkage between the
analysis of observed stimulus and knowledge about it. It is believed that neurons in the
inferior temporal cortex are involved in these processes, so that their responses vary
through experience or learning, so the perception of shapes and objects is linked to
visual associative memory.
Visual perceptual skills of children are not at the same level as for the adult, but
their perception of the world is also good (Arterberry, 2008). It has been estimated that
the form-constancy skills improve rapidly between 6 and 7 years of age, and stabilizes
between 8 and 9 years (Atkinson and Braddick, 1989; Williams, 1983).
However, any factor that interferes with the exploration of the environment may
interfere with visual perceptual learning process (Tsai, Wilson and Wu, 2008),
adversely affecting the ability to perform activities of daily live, such as games or
recreational activities, school work or other development tasks related to their age,
especially in school-age children (AOTA, 1991; Dankert, Davies and Gavin, 2003;
Kovacs, 2000; Loikith, 2005).
It is also reported that in school, performance in reading, writing and mathematics
may be negatively affected by inadequate form-perception skills (Cornoldi, Venneri,
Marconato, Molin and Montinari, 2003; Schneck and Lemer, 1993; Solan and Ciner,
1989, Weil and Amundson, 1994), given that these activities are usually working with
shapes, numbers, letters and words, which require, among other skills, the ability to
discriminate forms.
When a subject have deficiencies in this visual perception skill, may have
difficulties paying attention to subtle variations of certain forms, which could eventually
cause inability to recognize common objects (Zoltan, 2007). For example, he o she
might have trouble finding differences between a square, a rhombus and a rectangle.
Moreover, this difficulty to discriminate shapes can also affect the performance of
reading and writing, for example, finding no differences between letters like "s" and "z"
or words like "ride" and "side".
Some studies have encountered difficulties in this ability in patients with lesions in
the temporal and parietal lobe (Gulyas et al. 1994; Kosslyn, Chabis, Marsolek and
Koening, 1992), with refractive errors around 1.5 diopters (Leibowitz, Wilcox and Post,
1978), with dysfunction in sensory integration (Allison, Gabriel, Schlange and
Fredrickson, 2007), with deficits in the development of the coordination DCD (Hulme,
Biggerstaff, Moran and McKinlay, 1982; Hulme, Smart and Moran, 1982; Lord and
Hulme, 1987 and 1988; Schoemaker et al., 2001, Tsai et al., 2008) and in children with
low birth weight (Davis, Burns, Wilkerson and Steichen, 2005).
Some authors have shown that some children with amblyopia have difficulty in
the performance of discrimination tasks with shapes and texture-defined motion (Wang,
Ho and Giaschi, 2007), attributing these visual perceptual deficits to defects in the
processes of segregation of figure- ground.
Tseng and Chow (2000) have shown that children with low achievement in writing
speed have lowest scores on tasks of form-constancy.
Often, occupational therapists and other health professionals assess and treat
problems of visual perception that occur in school-age children (Kalb and Warshowsky,
1991; Todd, 1993; Wright, Bowen and Zecker, 2000) or in people of other ages, in
order to assess the presence and impact of the visual perceptual dysfunction in these
patients (Brown, 2008).
Ruf-Bchtiger (1989) has suggested the enormous importance of the evaluation
of some visual perceptual skills, to better understand children with visual perception
and to develop more effective methods of treatment. Davis et al. (2005) also found that
the visual perceptual assessment should be a vital part of the routine evaluation in
preschool children born prematurely, because early identification of visual perceptual
deficits could facilitate treatment, achieving an improvement in skills or visual
perceptual domains in these children at high risk.
In another report, Tsai et al. (2008) have considered the assessment of visual
perceptual skills in children with deficits in development of motor coordination has great
significance for the processing and implementation of strategies for better performance
on tasks of daily life.
This ability can be assessed by some tests that assess different visual perceptual
skills, including the form-constancy:
Once one or more of these tests was used, it is possible to determine if this visual
perceptual ability have or not the level of expected performance for the chronological
age of the subject. In cases where the results were below the expected values for age,
it is possible to train this skill with visual perceptual exercises.
Tsai et al. (2008) have reported that learning of visual perceptual skills can be
improved through practical experience in the same way the children learn to extract
relevant information from their environment in certain activities.
The present book of exercises is recommended for use by occupational
therapists, optometrists, educators, learning specialists and other health professionals,
and aims to train the ability to discriminate form-constancy in people who need to
improve it (mainly patients with learning difficulties or neurological damage, both
congenital and acquired), and people who want to enhance their performance in
carrying out these activities, for example, athletes or students who are preparing an
opposition.
This book consists of 200 plates containing different figures. In each of the plates
appears one picture in the upper half of the page that will serve as a reference
stimulus, and that person must observe in order to identify a single stimulus with a
shape exactly the same (although their size or orientation can be different than the
reference stimulus) within the possible answers given in the bottom half of the page.
The figures will rise in level of difficulty as you progress in the task.
Una vez que se haya administrado una o varias de estas pruebas, se puede
determinar si esta habilidad viso-perceptiva se corresponde o no con el nivel de
rendimiento esperado para la edad cronolgica del sujeto. En aquellos casos en los
que los resultados obtenidos estuvieran por debajo de los valores esperados para su
edad, es posible entrenar esta habilidad viso-perceptiva mediante ejercicios como los
que aparecen en el presente cuaderno de actividades.
Tsai y cols. (2008) han informado de que el aprendizaje de las habilidades visoperceptivas puede mejorarse mediante la experiencia prctica, de la misma manera
que un nio aprende a extraer la informacin relevante de su entorno en determinadas
actividades cotidianas.
El libro de ejercicios que presentamos a continuacin est recomendado para ser
utilizado por terapeutas ocupacionales, optometristas, educadores, especialistas del
aprendizaje y otros profesionales de la salud, y pretende entrenar la habilidad para
discriminar la constancia de la forma en aquellas personas que necesiten mejorar
(principalmente pacientes con dificultades de aprendizaje o con daos neurolgicos,
tanto congnitos, como adquiridos), y en personas que quieran aumentar su
rendimiento al realizar estas actividades, por ejemplo, deportistas o estudiantes que se
estn preparando una oposicin.
Este cuaderno est compuesto por 200 lminas que contienen distintas figuras.
En cada una de las lminas aparece una figura en la parte superior que servir de
estmulo de referencia, y que la persona debe observar para poder identificar un nico
estmulo con una forma exactamente igual (aunque su tamao o su orientacin vare
respecto al estmulo de referencia) dentro de las posibles respuestas dadas en la parte
inferior de la lmina. Las figuras van subiendo en nivel de dificultad conforme se
avanza en la tarea.
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ADMINISTRATION
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orientation is different) among the responses that are displayed on the bottom
half. Please, do the same in other plates. There is only one correct answer in
each plate.
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