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| Attention Span | 1 |
| Auditory Discrimination | 1 |
| Auditory Stimuli | 1 |
| Cognitive Development | 1 |
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| Infant Behavior | 1 |
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| Kinney, Dennis K. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedKinney, Dennis K.; Kagan, Jerome – Child Development, 1976
Groups of 7 1/2-month-old infants heard 1 of 8 episodes consisting of no, slight, moderate, or large discrepancy between a habituated standard and a transformed auditory stimulus. Patterns of cardiac deceleration supported the hypothesis that attentiveness is an inverted-U function of the degree of discrepancy between stimulus event and schema.…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development
