Duck or rabbit? Reversing ambiguous figures and understanding ambiguous representations.

By Alison Gopnik, Andrea D. Rosati. 2001

98 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b29b821396ee0196651ba8da1b2c551ab1345f88

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Gennaro Chierchia
2. Francesca Foppolo
3. Maria Teresa Guasti

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Gennaro Chierchia
2. Francesca Foppolo
3. Maria Teresa Guasti
4. E. Zweig

Citations in the corpus

• Scalar Implicatures in Child Language: Give Children a Chance (2012, methodology): “Inspired by a study on figure reversal by Gopnik and Rosati (2001), we manipulated the experimental design so as to “inform” the children about the ambiguity of some by showing them a situation in which it would be felicitously used (and was erroneously described by all) before one in which it was…”
• Executive Functions (2012, unknown): “Even when informed of the alternatives in an ambiguous figure, 3-year-olds remain stuck in their initial way of perceiving it; they cannot switch perspectives, just as they cannot switch sorting dimensions (Gopnik & Rosati 2001).”