Issue Information
Infancy, Volume 25, Issue 6, Page 755-757, November/December 2020. (Source: Infancy)
Source: Infancy - November 4, 2020 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Experience with research paradigms relates to infants ’ direction of preference
AbstractInterpreting and predicting direction of preference in infant research has been a thorny issue for decades. Several factors have been proposed to account for familiarity versus novelty preferences, including age, length of exposure, and task complexity. The current study explores an additional dimension: experience with the experimental paradigm. We reanalyzed the data from 4 experiments on artificial grammar learning in 12 ‐month‐old infants run using the head‐turn preference procedure (HPP). Participants in these studies varied substantially in their number of laboratory visits. Results show that the number...
Source: Infancy - October 27, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Chiara Santolin,
Gonzalo Garcia ‐Castro,
Martin Zettersten,
Nuria Sebastian‐Galles,
Jenny R. Saffran Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Dynamic changes in numerical acuity in 4 ‐month‐old infants
AbstractPreverbal infants represent the approximate numerosity of visual and auditory arrays: By 6 months old, they reliably discriminate eight dots or tones from 16 (a 1:2 ratio), but not eight from 12 (a 2:3 ratio). The precision of this approximate number sense improves gradually over childhood and into adulthood. However, less is known about numerical abilities in younger infants, and in pa rticular, whether there is developmental change in the number sense in the first half year of life. Here, in four experiments, we measured numerical precision in 4‐month‐old infants (N = 128) using a visual habituation task ...
Source: Infancy - October 27, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Jinjing (Jenny) Wang,
Lisa Feigenson Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Experience with research paradigms relates to infants ’ direction of preference
AbstractInterpreting and predicting direction of preference in infant research has been a thorny issue for decades. Several factors have been proposed to account for familiarity versus novelty preferences, including age, length of exposure, and task complexity. The current study explores an additional dimension: experience with the experimental paradigm. We reanalyzed the data from 4 experiments on artificial grammar learning in 12 ‐month‐old infants run using the head‐turn preference procedure (HPP). Participants in these studies varied substantially in their number of laboratory visits. Results show that the number...
Source: Infancy - October 27, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Chiara Santolin,
Gonzalo Garcia Garcia,
Martin Zettersten,
Nuria Sebastian ‐Galles,
Jenny R. Saffran Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Dynamic changes in numerical acuity in 4 ‐month‐old infants
AbstractPreverbal infants represent the approximate numerosity of visual and auditory arrays: By 6 months old, they reliably discriminate eight dots or tones from 16 (a 1:2 ratio), but not eight from 12 (a 2:3 ratio). The precision of this approximate number sense improves gradually over childhood and into adulthood. However, less is known about numerical abilities in younger infants, and in pa rticular, whether there is developmental change in the number sense in the first half year of life. Here, in four experiments, we measured numerical precision in 4‐month‐old infants (N = 128) using a visual habituation task ...
Source: Infancy - October 27, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Jinjing (Jenny) Wang,
Lisa Feigenson Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
