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Lasky, Robert E.; Klein, Robert E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1979
Demonstrates that eye contact per se, and not solely the inherent attractiveness of the eyes and face, is salient to five-month-old infants. Five-month-old infants can distinguish when another person is looking at them, rather than at a nearby location. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior, Infants
Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Owsley, Cynthia J. – 1977
This report describes two exploration studies which examined the development of infants' intermodal knowledge by examining infants' auditorily guided visual search for objects. Experiment 1 examined intermodal search for the mother and father by 9 infants at each of three age levels: 3, 5, and 7 months of age; the final sample was 23 infants.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Concept Formation, Eye Fixations