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Adler, Scott A.; Gerhardstein, Peter; Rovee-Collier, Carolyn – Child Development, 1998
Three experiments manipulated 3-month-olds' attention to different components of a training display and assessed the effect on retention. Results suggested that increasing or decreasing attention to an item during encoding produces a corresponding increase or decrease in memorability. Findings were consistent with a levels-of-processing account…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Encoding (Psychology), Infant Behavior
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Butterworth, George – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1998
Proposes an amended timetable for the origins of joint visual attention and offers theoretical alternatives for the development of point. Includes discussions of the origins of intentionality, the emergence of joint attention, the transition to pointing comprehension, the signal cues of different joint-attention cues, pointing comprehension, the…
Descriptors: Attention, Child Development, Cues, Individual Development
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Rose, Susan A.; Futterweit, Lorelle R.; Jankowski, Jeffrey J. – Child Development, 1999
Examined the relation of positive affect to attention and learning in 5-, 7-, and 9-month olds. Found that at all ages positive affect was associated with long look durations and slower learning. Neutral affect was associated with short looks and faster learning. Learning was faster than expected for infants displaying both short looks and neutral…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Haaf, Robert A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Developmental Psychology, Difficulty Level
Walker, Arlene – 1981
Four experiments (E1, E2, E3 and E4) investigated whether or not 5- to 7-month-old infants could detect auditory-visual relationships in audiovisual presentations of affective expressions, thereby perceiving the bimodally-presented expressions as unitary events. In E1, 16 infants were simultaneously shown two 2-minute films of a "happy"…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Auditory Perception, Early Childhood Education
Weizmann, Fredric; And Others – 1979
The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether a general perceptual model developed by Vitz and Todd (1971), capable of dealing with multiple determinants of attending, is useful for understanding infant attending. The model, previously used in research with adults, assumes that perception can be represented as a stochastic sampling…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Difficulty Level, Infant Behavior
McCall, Robert B. – 1970
Studies of the infant's distribution of attention to stimuli of varying complexity, and of his differential attention to familiar versus novel stimuli (discrepancy), have attempted to shed light on the development of cognitive structures in the non-verbal infant. The subjects have typically been normal infants ages 4 to 6 months. For testing, the…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Bahrick, Lorraine E.; Hernandez-Reif, Maria; Pickens, Jeffrey N. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Tested hypothesis from Bahrick and Pickens' infant attention model that retrieval cues increase memory accessibility and shift visual preferences toward greater novelty to resemble recent memories. Found that after retention intervals associated with remote or intermediate memory, previous familiarity preferences shifted to null or novelty…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Cues, Familiarity
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Deak, Gedeon O.; Flom, Ross A.; Pick, Anne D. – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Two experiments investigated factors affecting joint visual attention in 12- and 18-month-olds. Findings indicated that parental pointing at objects elicited more episodes of joint visual attention than looking alone. Although infants most reliably followed gestures to targets in front of them, even 12-month-olds followed gestures to targets…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Cues, Infant Behavior
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Carpenter, Malinda; Nagell, Katherine; Tomasello, Michael – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1998
Two longitudinal studies examined social-cognitive skill emergence in 9- to 15-month olds, mother-infant interaction regarding joint attentional engagement, and infant's communicative competence. Findings indicated a reliable pattern of social-cognitive skill emergence and that amount of time spent in joint engagement with mothers and mothers' use…
Descriptors: Attention, Infant Behavior, Infants, Longitudinal Studies
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Baldwin, Dare A.; Baird, Jodie A.; Saylor, Megan M.; Clark, M. Angela – Child Development, 2001
Two studies investigated whether 10- to 11-month-olds possess skills for parsing ongoing behavior along boundaries correlated with initiation and completion of intentions. Found that infants showed renewed interest in test videos in which motion paused in the midst of an actor's pursuit of intentions; suspended motion at intentional boundary…
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Infant Behavior
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Jankowski, Jeffery J.; Rose, Susan A.; Feldman, Judith F. – Child Development, 2001
Studied in three experiments the distribution and malleability of visual attention in 5-month-olds while they inspected large geometric designs. Established that infants who were short-lookers had novelty scores above chance, whereas long-lookers demonstrated chance responding. Illuminating different parts of visual display induced long-lookers to…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, Infant Behavior
Watson, John S.; Danielson, Gary – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Research supported in part by OEO Headstart Subcontract No. 1410 with Michigan State University Headstart Evaluation and Research Center.
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Development, Classification, Cognitive Ability
Porges, Stephen W. – 1977
Reports on research conducted to asses the utility of physiological responses for both the prediction of individual differences in attentional capacity and the monitoring of developmental changes in attentional responsivity. Specifically the experiments assessed: (1) Heart rate variability and newborn heart rate responses to illumination changes,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention, Handicapped Children, Heart Rate
Uzgiris, Ina C.; Hunt, J. McV. – 1970
The human infant is now considered capable of active informational interaction with the environment. This study tested certain hypotheses concerning the nature of that interaction. These hypotheses, developed partly from Piaget's work, are (1) that repeated visual encounters with a stimulus pattern leads first to attentional preference for that…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
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