TY - JOUR
T1 - Infant visual expectation in relation to feature learning
AU - Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.
AU - McClure, Jana
N1 - Funding Information:
CT-L. and J.M. were supported by NIMH Grant #HD48915 awarded to C.T.L. All equipment for this study was purchased with funds provided by New York University, including two Research Challenge Fund grants from the School of Education. We thank Wendy Amone and Steve Cross for their assistance in programming, Bill Schiff for his feedback and support, Marc H. Bomstein for his careful feedback on a first draft, and Lainie Hazan for time spent coding infant looking. Correspondence and requests for reprints should be sent to Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, 239 Greene Street-Sth Floor, New York, NY 10003.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - Five-month-old infants were administered a modified version of Haith, Hazan, and Goodman's (1988) visual expectation paradigm. Infants were presented with 60 trials of a left-left-right or right-right-left alternating sequence of moving graphic stimuli. An immobile and unchanging visual feature (i.e., a {n-ary logical or} or a ∀) appeared at random locations on each of the graphics. Infants then received a series of six test trials in which a novel pair of identical moving stimuli was simultaneously presented to the left and right of visual center. The "familiar" feature (e.g., {n-ary logical or}) appeared on one member of the pair and the "novel" feature (e.g., ∀) appeared on the other member of the pair. Results indicated that infants who engaged in more anticipatory looking during the 60 familiarization trials attended more to the graphic containing the novel feature during test trials. Results suggest that 5-month-old infants who are better at learning spatiotemporal patterns are also better at learning the contents of brief and changing graphic displays. It is suggested that the relation between anticipatory looking and novelty preference is explained by cognitive as well as attention-regulatory factors.
AB - Five-month-old infants were administered a modified version of Haith, Hazan, and Goodman's (1988) visual expectation paradigm. Infants were presented with 60 trials of a left-left-right or right-right-left alternating sequence of moving graphic stimuli. An immobile and unchanging visual feature (i.e., a {n-ary logical or} or a ∀) appeared at random locations on each of the graphics. Infants then received a series of six test trials in which a novel pair of identical moving stimuli was simultaneously presented to the left and right of visual center. The "familiar" feature (e.g., {n-ary logical or}) appeared on one member of the pair and the "novel" feature (e.g., ∀) appeared on the other member of the pair. Results indicated that infants who engaged in more anticipatory looking during the 60 familiarization trials attended more to the graphic containing the novel feature during test trials. Results suggest that 5-month-old infants who are better at learning spatiotemporal patterns are also better at learning the contents of brief and changing graphic displays. It is suggested that the relation between anticipatory looking and novelty preference is explained by cognitive as well as attention-regulatory factors.
KW - novelty preference anticipation infancy learning attention expectation formation reaction time
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U2 - 10.1016/0163-6383(95)90032-2
DO - 10.1016/0163-6383(95)90032-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33751257300
VL - 18
SP - 427
EP - 434
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
SN - 0163-6383
IS - 4
ER -