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Peer reviewedAdams, Russell J.; Courage, Mary L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Habituated 180 neonates to white lights of varying luminance and tested for recovery of habituation to green, yellow, or red lights varying in excitation purity. Found that newborns discriminated chromatic stimuli from white only when excitation purity exceeded levels much higher than those for adults. Results reinforce view that neonates' vision…
Descriptors: Color, Discrimination Learning, Habituation, Infants
