ERIC Number: ED129412
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1973-Nov-30
Pages: 195
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Kansas Center for Research in Early Childhood Education Annual Report, FY 1973.
Horowitz, Frances D.
This monograph is a collection of papers describing a series of loosely related studies of visual attention, auditory stimulation, and language discrimination in young infants. Titles include: (1) Infant Attention and Discrimination: Methodological and Substantive Issues; (2) The Addition of Auditory Stimulation (Music) and an Interspersed Stimulus Procedure to Control Visual Attending Behavior in Infants; (3) The Effects of Variations of Auditory Stimulation (Music) and Interspersed Stimulus Procedures on Visual Attending Behavior in Infants; (4) The Use of the Mother's Voice to Control Infant Attending Behavior; (5) Infant Control and Response Decrement and Recovery as an Index of Visual Discrimination in Young Infants; (6) Visual Fixation and Voice Discrimination in Two-Month-Old Infants; (7) Visual Fixation and the Effect of Voice Quality and Content Differences in Two-Month-Old Infants; and (8) Discussion and Conclusions (based on the preceding papers). An appendix presents principles and procedures in the operation of an infant experimental research laboratory. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Ethics, Eye Fixations, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior, Infants, Intermode Differences, Laboratory Experiments, Language Acquisition, Methods, Perceptual Development, Research, Visual Discrimination, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Sponsor: National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.; National Coordination Center for Early Childhood Education, St. Ann, MO.
Authoring Institution: Kansas Univ., Lawrence. Kansas Center for Research in Early Childhood Education.
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