@article{ref1,
title="Discrimination of speed in 5-year-olds and adults: Are children up to speed?",
journal="Vision research",
year="2005",
author="Ahmed, I. J. and Lewis, Terri L. and Ellemberg, Dave and Maurer, Daphne",
volume="45",
number="16",
pages="2129-2135",
abstract="We compared thresholds for discriminating changes in speed by 5-year-olds and adults for two reference speeds: 1.5 and 6 degrees s(-1). Both adults and 5-year-olds were more sensitive to changes from the faster than from the slower reference speed. Five-year-olds were less sensitive than adults at both reference speeds but significantly more immature at the slower (1.5 degrees s(-1)) than at the faster (6 degrees s(-1)) reference speed. The findings suggest that the mechanisms underlying speed discrimination are immature in 5-year-olds, especially those that process slower speeds.",
language="",
issn="0042-6989",
doi="10.1016/j.visres.2005.01.036",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2005.01.036"
}