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Kagan, Jerome – Merrill-Palmer Quart, 1969
Paper presented at the Merrill-Palmer Institute on Research and Training of Infant Development (Detroit, Mich., Feb. 15-17, 1968).
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Infants, Sex Differences
McCall, Robert B.; Kagan, Jerome – Develop Psychol, 1970
Results of this study of 72 4-month-old infants suggest caution in using an overt demonstration of habituation as a necessary index of perceptual learning. (Author/MG)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Infant Behavior, Perceptual Development, Reaction Time
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Kinney, 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