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Peer reviewedRichards, John E.; Gibson, Theresa L. – Child Development, 1997
Examined visual fixation in 3- to 6-month olds for fit to attentional inertia theory. Found that look duration toward extended audiovisual stimuli had a lognormal distribution. The conditional probability of looking away decreased when look duration increased. Heart rate deceleration accompanied look onset and stimulus changes occurring within…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Stimuli, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedZeifman, Debra; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
In one experiment, sucrose arrested crying and reduced heart rate and gross activity in 2-week-olds but was ineffective in calming 4-week-olds unless accompanied by eye contact. In a second experiment, for 4-week-olds who received sucrose without eye contact or water with eye contact, the reduction in crying was modest and not sustained.…
Descriptors: Crying, Eye Contact, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedMcCall, Robert B. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Individual differences in pattern of habituation in fixation time and cardiac change to visual and auditory stimuli are described. Subjects were 94 5- and 10-month-old infants. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Eye Fixations, Heart Rate, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedAdkinson, Cheryl D.; Berg, W. Keith – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
A total of 20 neonates were presented with mild intensity blue or blue-green light during presentation of habituation and dishabituation stimuli. Orienting and defensive responses were measured by monitoring heart rate deceleration. (GO)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Color, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedBrotsky, S. Joyce; Kagan, Jerome – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Behavioral Science Research, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedPorges, Stephen W. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1974
Clarifies issues involved in use of heart rate as index of newborn attentional responsivity by reviewing related studies and concluding that heart rate variability can be used in studying attentional responsivity state, and intra-individual and individual variables. (ED)
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Stimuli, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development
Peer reviewedRichards, John E.; Cronise, Kim – Child Development, 2000
Examined visual fixation in infants 6 months to 2 years old for fit with theory of attentional inertia. Found that fixations had lognormal distribution, heart rate decreased during a look, and heart rate returned to prestimulus levels immediately before look offset. Older children showed different looking patterns to two types of stimuli; younger…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control, Attention Span
Peer reviewedMoore, David S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1995
Two experiments studied whether altering an auditory stimulus' rate of change affected infants' fixation of changing visual stimuli. Results demonstrated that infants exposed simultaneously to auditory and visual stimulation showed a reduced tendency to fixate on relatively more visually stimulating events. Heart rates also accelerated during…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli
Field, Tiffany Martini – 1978
This paper presents a study of the looking and looking away or gaze alternation behavior of both full term and preterm infants in the presence of varying degrees of facial animation. The faces used in the study included, in increasing order of animation, a Raggedy Ann doll's face, a moving and talking doll's face, a mother's less animated face…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attention, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior
