Infant Habituation: Assessments of Individual Differences and Short-Term Reliability at Five Months
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This study is concerned with individual differences and short-term reliability of infant-control habituation of visual attention. Habituation to single female faces and to single geometric patterns was observed separately in 2 groups of comparable 5-month-olds. Each group participated in habituation twice, and habituation sessions for each were separated from one another by 10 days. Across the 2 conditions, habituation was found to be distributed into 3 patterns: Most infants decreased looking and achieved criterion in a negatively exponential fashion, some infants first increased looking and then rapidly habituated, and some infants showed fluctuating and idiosyncratic looking-time functions prior to habituating. Both qualitative patterns and quantitative indexes of habituation showed moderate but significant reliability between assessment sessions. Quantitative and psychometric characteristics of habituation and the meaningfulness of habituation of attention as an index of infant cognition are discussed.
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60% of 6-month-olds and 50% of 12-month-olds tended to produce their peak look after the first look in the habituation function.
“However, broadly in line with previous work [50], 60 % of 6-month-olds and 50 % of 12-month-olds tended to produce their peak look after the first look in the habituation function.”
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- Authors
- Bornstein, M. H., & Benasich, A. A.
- Affiliations
- New York University (US)
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1986-02
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 87
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2072371975
- Cited by
- 114
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 11.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5k04hd000521-05)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD17423, HD20559, K04 HD00521)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Keywords
- infant habituation, visual attention, individual differences, short-term reliability, looking time, face recognition (cognition), geometric patterns, infant cognition, 5-month-old infants
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Psychology, Child, Face, Form Perception, Habituation, Psychophysiologic, Humans, Individuality, Infant
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