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Gardner, Judith; Karmel, Bernard Z. – 1980
Preferential looking behavior to stimuli varying in temporal frequency was examined in 11 prematurely born, Black and Hispanic infants when they were between 37 and 39 weeks of postconceptional age. Infants were tested one hour after they had fed on two successive days. Infants were unswaddled during testing on the first day, and swaddled during…
Descriptors: Attention, Black Youth, Hispanic Americans, Influences
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Richards, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Examined the effect of attention on infants' responses to briefly exposed visual stimuli. Found that the duration of stimulus exposure in the familiarization phase was positively correlated with the preference for the novel stimulus in the paired-comparison procedure, and processing of briefly presented visual stimuli differed depending on the…
Descriptors: Attention, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes