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Peer reviewedCowan, Nelson; And Others – Child Development, 1982
Investigates preperceptual auditory storage among eight 9-week-old infants in three experiments using a modification of an adult masking paradigm and a nonnutritive sucking discrimination procedure. Results suggest that echoic storage contributes to auditory perception in infancy and, for infants compared to adults, echoic traces have a longer…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Comparative Analysis
