Asymmetries in infants' attention to the presence or absence of features.

Three experiments were performed to test whether infants show a bias for detecting the presence of a feature in a stimulus rather than its absence. In the 1st experiment, 24 16-week-old infants were given 3 paired-comparison problems, each of which included a 25-s familiarization phase followed by 2...

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Published in:	Journal of Genetic Psychology Vol. 161; no. 4; pp. 420 - 435
Main Authors:	Coldren, Jeffrey T., Haaf, Robert A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd December 2000
Subjects:	Infant psychology Attention Recognition (Psychology) Visual learning Stimulus duration
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