Abstract
Schoolboys from the Ivory Coast and from Kenya were tested on a simple task intended to detect the effect of implicit‐shape constancy. The presence of such an effect was confirmed. Comparison of two Ivorean subsamples differing in their responses to a request to build a model of a depicted structure showed that those subjects who built flat (2D) models were less influenced by the implicit‐shape constancy than those subjects who built three‐dimensional structures. This confirms a postulated link between the implicit constancy and perception of pictorial depth.

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