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Christodoulou, Joan; Leland, David S.; Moore, David S. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Although looking-time methods have long been used to measure infant attention and investigate aspects of cognitive development, steady-state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) measures may be more sensitive or practical in some contexts. Here, we demonstrate habituation of infants' SSVEP amplitudes to a flickering checkerboard stimulus, and…
Descriptors: Infants, Diagnostic Tests, Attention, Cognitive Development
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Gaither, Sarah E.; Pauker, Kristin; Johnson, Scott P. – Developmental Science, 2012
We know that early experience plays a crucial role in the development of face processing, but we know little about how infants learn to distinguish faces from different races, especially for non-Caucasian populations. Moreover, it is unknown whether differential processing of different race faces observed in typically studied monoracial infants…
Descriptors: Human Body, Whites, Habituation, Visual Stimuli
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Kovack-Lesh, Kristine A.; Horst, Jessica S.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Infancy, 2008
We examined the effect of 4-month-old infants' previous experience with dogs, cats, or both and their online looking behavior on their learning of the adult-defined category of "cat" in a visual familiarization task. Four-month-old infants' (N = 123) learning in the laboratory was jointly determined by whether or not they had experience…
Descriptors: Infants, Classification, Eye Movements, Animals