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A Longitudinal Study of Visual Expectation and Reaction Time in the First Year of Life.
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Rose, Susan A.; Feldman, Judith F.; Jankowski, Jeffery J.; Caro, Donna M. – Child Development, 2002
Examined developmental change and stability of visual expectation and reaction times among 5-, 7-, and 12-month-old term and preterm infants. Found that reaction times declined with age while anticipations increased. Infants with faster reaction times were more likely to anticipate upcoming events; this effect disappeared when time between stimuli…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Infants
Children's Perception of Motion in Unidirectional, Two- and Three-Pitch Melodic Patterns and the Related Effects of Change in Timbre, Loudness, and Duration.
Williams, David Brian – 1977
Three experiments examined the effects of selected factors of interval size, timbre, loudness, and length of the melodic pattern on children's ability to perceive, the motion of 2- and 3-pitch melodic patterns. Subjects for all experiments were 32 second- and 32 fifth-grade children. The task for each experiment consisted of identifying the motion…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Elementary School Students, Music
Auditory Pattern Classification: Continuity of Prototype Use with Development
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Williams, Tannis MacBeth; Aiken, Leona S. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Development of the ability to classify auditory patterns was studied at grades 2, 6, 10, and 12 and at adult age levels. Both accuracy and feature use in classification were consistent across age; the age changes that did occur appeared to be due to differences in perception rather than process. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Classification
Do Children Find Complex Patterns Interesting or Pleasing?
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Aitken, P. P.; Hutt, Corinne – Child Development, 1974
Children, ages 3 to 10 were asked to rank random polygons, which differed in complexity according to interestingness and pleasingness. Complexity preferences varied with age. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Interest Research, Pattern Recognition
How Adults and Children Search and Recognize Pictures
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Mackworth, N. H.; Brunner, J. S. – Human Development, 1970
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes
Perception of Rhythm by Subjects with Normal and Deficient Hearing
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Rileigh, Kathryn K.; Odom, Penelope B. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Study found that auditory experience has an indirect influence on rhythm perception, but auditory involvement during the task does not. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Deafness
Spatial Organization of Young Children.
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Keogh, Barbara K. – 1970
This study was designed to consider effects of age, sex, intelligence, lateral usage, and lateral awareness on young children's performance of spatial organization tasks. The sample consisted of 79 Caucasian, middle socioeconomic status nursery school children (mean C.A. 57.80, S.D. 4.47 months), 44 boys and 35 girls. Spatial organization was…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Lateral Dominance, Nursery Schools
Perceptual Sensitivity to Dimensional and Similarity Relations in Free and Rule-Governed Classifications.
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Cook, Gregory L.; Odom, Richard D. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1988
Two experiments investigated perceptual primacy of dimensional and similarity relations in stimulus classifications of younger and older subjects. Results support a differential-sensitivity view of perceptual development which asserts that individuals at all ages primarily perceive and use separate relations. (RWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Comparative Testing, Early Childhood Education