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Peer reviewedWeiss, Michael J.; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Findings confirmed that newborns turn toward laterally presented sounds, habituate with repetition, recover to novel sounds, and extend demonstrations of recovery to discrepant stimuli. Recovery was found to be a curvilinear function of degree of discrepancy. Newborns systematically turned away from redundant stimuli. (RH)
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Stimuli, Foreign Countries, Habituation
