University of Tehran Journal of Applied Psychological Research 2251-8126 Articles in Press 2024 09 25 Investigating the Effect of Language on the Visual Recognition Ability of Female Children Investigating the Effect of Language on the Visual Recognition Ability of Female Children 98739 10.22059/japr.2024.371395.644841 FA Narges Kazerooni Department of Cognitive Psychology, Research Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 0000-0002-4167-7179 Saeid Sadeghi Department of Cognitive Psychology, Research Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 0000-0002-2922-6412 Journal Article 2024 01 20 The present study was conducted with the objective of examining the influence of language on the visual recognition abilities of childrenThis research follows an experimental design with a post-test, incorporating a control groupThe statistical population comprised female children aged 5 to 9 in Isfahan in the year 2022 from whom a sample of 90 children was selected through samplingThe study utilized a visual object recognition task (ORT)The participants were categorized into two groups: verbal and non-verbalThe verbal group wasexposed to a descriptive story presented either upwards or downwards, while the non-verbal group wasexposed to a visual motion picture presented either upwards or downwardsThe collected data were analyzed using SPSS 26 softwareDescriptive statistics, a contingency table, and the chi-square independence test wereemployed for description and assessment of the relationship between the variablesThe chi-square statistic for the verbal group was 9.60 with a significant probability of 0.002, and for the non-verbal groupit was 15.473 with a significant probability of 0.001The outcomes reveal a significant effect in both verbal and nonverbal conditions, indicating that children's interpretation of ambiguous images can be influenced by observing motion pictures or verbal descriptions of motion.Therefore, verbal descriptions of motion can significantly impact perceptual processing and guide it The present study was conducted with the objective of examining the influence of language on the visual recognition abilities of childrenThis research follows an experimental design with a post-test, incorporating a control groupThe statistical population comprised female children aged 5 to 9 in Isfahan in the year 2022 from whom a sample of 90 children was selected through samplingThe study utilized a visual object recognition task (ORT)The participants were categorized into two groups: verbal and non-verbalThe verbal group wasexposed to a descriptive story presented either upwards or downwards, while the non-verbal group wasexposed to a visual motion picture presented either upwards or downwardsThe collected data were analyzed using SPSS 26 softwareDescriptive statistics, a contingency table, and the chi-square independence test wereemployed for description and assessment of the relationship between the variablesThe chi-square statistic for the verbal group was 9.60 with a significant probability of 0.002, and for the non-verbal groupit was 15.473 with a significant probability of 0.001The outcomes reveal a significant effect in both verbal and nonverbal conditions, indicating that children's interpretation of ambiguous images can be influenced by observing motion pictures or verbal descriptions of motion.Therefore, verbal descriptions of motion can significantly impact perceptual processing and guide it https://japr.ut.ac.ir/article_98739_850c7a8a30fa40cf01a9db756b49155a.pdf