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Peer reviewedLester, Gene – Journal of General Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, College Students, Discrimination Learning, Experiments
Peer reviewedDroit-Volet, Sylvie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Examined effects of a click signaling arrival of a visual stimulus to be timed on temporal discrimination in 3-, 5-, and 8-year-olds. Found that in all groups, the proportion of long responses increased with the stimulus duration, although the steepness of functions increased with age. Stimulus duration was judged longer with than without the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control, Children
Object Recognition and Attention to Object Components by Preschool Children and 4-Month-Old Infants.
Peer reviewedHaaf, Robert A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
This study investigated attention to and recognition of components in compound stimuli among infants and preschoolers. Oddity tasks with preschoolers and familiarization/novelty-preference tasks with infants demonstrated successful discrimination among stimuli components on basis of edge property information. Matching tasks with preschoolers and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control, Discrimination Learning
