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Bahrick, Lorraine E.; Todd, James Torrence; Castellanos, Irina; Sorondo, Barbara M. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The development of attention to dynamic faces versus objects providing synchronous audiovisual versus silent visual stimulation was assessed in a large sample of infants. Maintaining attention to the faces and voices of people speaking is critical for perceptual, cognitive, social, and language development. However, no studies have systematically…
Descriptors: Attention, Infants, Human Body, Habituation
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Bahrick, Lorraine E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Assessed development of infants' sensitivity to two nested amodal temporal relations in audible and visible events. Found that sensitivity to synchrony was present by 4 weeks, remaining stable across age. Sensitivity to composition emerged by 7 weeks, increasing dramatically with age. Noted pattern of increasing specificity in perception…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Cross Sectional Studies, Habituation