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Peer reviewedNelson, Charles A.; Dolgin, Kim G. – Child Development, 1985
Examined seven-month-old infants' perceptions of happy and fearful facial expressions. Infants could generalize discrimination of expressions across male and female faces if first familiarized with happy faces. Infants tended to look longer at fear faces than at happy faces. Preferential responding was not specific to any individual face.…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Facial Expressions, Fear, Generalization
Peer reviewedNelson, Charles A.; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Three experiments investigated seven-month-old infants' ability to discriminate the facial expressions of happiness and fear. (CM)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Emotional Response, Fear, Generalization
Peer reviewedBornstein, Marc H. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Color, Discrimination Learning, Generalization, Infant Behavior
Direct linkEndress, Ansgar D.; Scholl, Brian J.; Mehler, Jacques – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
Recent research suggests that humans and other animals have sophisticated abilities to extract both statistical dependencies and rule-based regularities from sequences. Most of this research stresses the flexibility and generality of such processes. Here the authors take up an equally important project, namely, to explore the limits of such…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cognitive Ability, Generalization, Infants
