Young Infants' Visual Expectations for Symmetric and Asymmetric Stimulus Sequences.

Canfield, Richard L.; Haith, Marshall M.

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Publication Date: 1991

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Young Infants' Visual Expectations for Symmetric and Asymmetric Stimulus Sequences.

Canfield, Richard L.; Haith, Marshall M.

Developmental Psychology, v27 n2 p198-208 Mar 1991

Infants' visual fixations were monitored while they viewed predictable and unpredictable sequences of stimuli. Analyses of anticipatory fixations indicated that by two months of age, infants form expectations for the reappearance of visual stimuli positioned opposite to each other. By three months, infants rapidly form expectations for asymmetric sequences. (BC)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Expectation, Eye Fixations, Infants, Perceptual Development, Reaction Time, Visual Learning, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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