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Attentional Inertia at Four and Seven Months?
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Mendelson, Morton J. – Child Development, 1983
Data obtained from a group of infants ranging in age from four to seven months did not support the existence of attentional inertia in this age range. (MP)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Eye Fixations, Foreign Countries, Infants
Discrimination of Strangers by the Three-Month-Old.
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Barrera, Maria E.; Maurer, Daphne – Child Development, 1981
Uses the habituation paradigm to investigate 3-month-old infants' abilities to recognize and discriminate among the faces of strangers. Infants consistently discriminated between photographs of faces following extensive exposure to one, and recognized something about the face they saw during habituation. Results suggest that similarity influences…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior, Infants