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Hespos, Susan J.; Dora, Begum; Rips, Lance J.; Christie, Stella – Child Development, 2012
Infants can track small groups of solid objects, and infants can respond when these quantities change. But earlier work is equivocal about whether infants can track continuous substances, such as piles of sand. Experiment 1 ("N" = 88) used a habituation paradigm to show infants can register changes in the size of piles of sand that they…
Descriptors: Evidence, Infants, Psychology, Eye Movements
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Weiss, 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