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Bertels, Julie; San Anton, Estibaliz; Gebuis, Titia; Destrebecqz, Arnaud – Developmental Science, 2017
Extracting the statistical regularities present in the environment is a central learning mechanism in infancy. For instance, infants are able to learn the associations between simultaneously or successively presented visual objects (Fiser & Aslin, 2002; Kirkham, Slemmer & Johnson, 2002). The present study extends these results by…
Descriptors: Infants, Associative Learning, Visual Learning, Cues
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Dixon, Wallace E., Jr.; Smith, P. Hull – Infant and Child Development, 2008
An interesting paradox in the developmental literature has emerged in which fast-habituating babies tend to be temperamentally difficult and fast language learners, even though temperamentally difficult babies tend to be slow language learners. The purpose of the present investigation was to examine whether the paradoxical relationships among…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Habituation, Language Acquisition
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Laucht, Manfred; Becker, Katja; Schmidt, Martin H. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: The present study was designed to investigate the association between visual exploratory behaviour in early infancy, novelty seeking in adolescence, and the dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) genotype. Methods: Visual attention was measured in 232 three-month-old infants (114 males, 118 females) from a prospective longitudinal study using a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Attention, Infants, Males