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Kravitz, Dwight Jacob; Behrmann, Marlene – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
Although object-based attention enhances perceptual processing of information appearing within the boundaries of a selected object, little is known about the consequences for information in the object's surround. The authors show that distance from an attended object's center of mass determines reaction time (RT) to targets in the surround. Of 2…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Dimensional Preference, Information Processing, Proximity
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Cornell, Edward H. – Child Development, 1975
An investigation of 4-month-old children's attention responses to pattern dimensions and orientations by comparing the duration of an infant's fixation to changes in the orientation and structural arrangement of a previously exposed pattern. (ED)
Descriptors: Attention, Dimensional Preference, Infant Behavior, Pattern Recognition
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Fantz, Robert L.; Miranda, Simon B. – Child Development, 1973
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference, Downs Syndrome
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Ellis, Ann E.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
A sequential-touching task was used to investigate whether 14-month-old infants can rapidly change how they categorize a set of objects, recognizing new groupings of objects they had previously categorized in a different way. When presented with a collection of objects that could be categorized by shape (balls vs. blocks) or material (soft vs.…
Descriptors: Infants, Classification, Sequential Approach, Dimensional Preference