Infant Attention to Auditory Discrepancy.

Kinney, Dennis K.; Kagan, Jerome

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ERIC Number: EJ141648

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Publication Date: 1976

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Infant Attention to Auditory Discrepancy

Kinney, Dennis K.; Kagan, Jerome

Child Development, 47, 1, 155-164, Mar 76

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. (BRT)

Descriptors: Attention Span, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior, Infants

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