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Peer reviewedColdren, Jeffrey T.; Colombo, John – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
In three experiments, nine-month-old infants were trained to fixate on a particular feature in a pair of stimuli that varied along three dimensions. In a fourth experiment, infants were trained to fixate on a stimulus compound until reaching a learning criterion. Infants' discrimination learning under these conditions implied an ability to attend…
Descriptors: Attention, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Eye Fixations
Peer reviewedFaulkender, Patricia J.; And Others – Child Development, 1974
An evaluation of selective generalization of habituation on the basis of meaningful categories of stimuli. Also explored are the sex differences in conceptual generalization of habituation. Subjects were 36 toddlers with a mean age of 40 months. (SDH)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Eye Fixations
Culp, Rex E.; Gallas, Howard B. – 1975
This paper reports a study which investigated 2-month-old infants' auditory discrimination of tone quality in the male voice, extending a previous study which found that voice quality changes (soft versus harsh) in a female voice were discriminable by infants at this age. Subjects were 20 infants, tested at 8 and 9 weeks of age. Each infant was…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Tests, Discrimination Learning, Eye Fixations
Peer reviewedColombo, John; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1995
Investigates the dominance of global versus local visual properties in four-month-old infants as a function of individual differences in fixation duration. Suggests that long-looking infants process visual information more slowly than short-looking infants, and there may be qualitative differences in the manner in which the two groups of infants…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning
Download full textMiller, Dolores J.; And Others – 1975
This study examines serial habituation in a sample of 54 infants aged 2, 3, and 4 months to determine whether age changes are partially a function of different "strategies" rather than simply different rates of habituation. The serial habituation hypothesis proposes that attention and habituation of attention proceed in order of the relative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cross Sectional Studies, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning
Meyer, William J.; Dwyer, Michael – 1970
This study examined age differences in children's visual fixation and search strategies of two dimensional visual stimuli. The hypotheses tested were: (1) that no age differences exist in general search strategies regardless of stimuli position, (2) that age differences could be expected with respect to the number and duration of visual fixations,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education
Horowitz, Frances D. – 1973
This monograph is a collection of papers describing a series of loosely related studies of visual attention, auditory stimulation, and language discrimination in young infants. Titles include: (1) Infant Attention and Discrimination: Methodological and Substantive Issues; (2) The Addition of Auditory Stimulation (Music) and an Interspersed…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli
