Serial Habituation in Two-, Three-, and Four-Month-Old Infants

Serial habituation of visual fixations in 2-, 3-, and 4-month-old infants was investigated through a design permitting cross-sectional, within-subject longitudinal, cohort longitudinal, and time-lag analyses. The components of the standard stimulus were displayed individually before and after succes...

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Published in:Child development 1976-06, Vol.47 (2), p.341-349
Main Authors: Miller, Dolores J., Ryan, Ellen B., Sinnott, Joseph P., Wilson, Mary A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age groups
Analysis of variance
Attention
Children
Fatigue
Female
Fixation, Ocular
Habituation
Habituation, Psychophysiologic
Humans
Individuality
Infants
Male
Memory interference
Reflexes
Research Design
Saliency
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Summary:Serial habituation of visual fixations in 2-, 3-, and 4-month-old infants was investigated through a design permitting cross-sectional, within-subject longitudinal, cohort longitudinal, and time-lag analyses. The components of the standard stimulus were displayed individually before and after successive exposures of the standard for familiarization. Relative saliencies of the components for each child were indexed by magnitude of responding to these parts in the initial presentation. Comparisons of the pre- and postexposure fixation times suggest that for all ages habituation was under way to the parts of the stimulus in order of the relative saliencies. The nature of the data in general did not appear to be influenced significantly by any 1 methodology.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.2307/1128787