Infant memory for object motion across a period of three months: implications for a four-phase attention function

Article Abstract:

Memory of object motion was retained by 3-month-old infants across intervals of 1 and 3 months. An interaction was also found between retention time and novelty and familiarity preferences. Preference for the novel motion was significant at the 1-min delay, while familiar motion was significantly preferred at the 1-month delay, and no preferences were significant at the intermediate retention intervals. A significant familiarity preference was also recorded when memory was assessed after three months. Results suggest a four-phase relation between retention times and visual preferences.

Attention (Psychology), Movement, Psychology of, Movement (Psychology), Memory in infants, Infant memory, Attention

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Intersensory redundancy facilitates learning of arbitrary relations between vowel sounds and objects in seven-month-old infants

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Research was conducted to examine the influence of intersensory redundancy on the ability of infants to relate vowel sounds with objects. Video films showing vowel-object pairs under varying conditions were shown to 48 subjects. Results show that vowel-pairs were not detected in moving-asynchronous condition but not in moving synchronous condition. This indicates that learning is facilitated by object motion and temporal synchrony between vocalizations.

Learning, Psychology of, Learning theory (Psychology), Word recognition, Lexical phonology

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Increasing specificity in perceptual development: infants' detection of nested levels of multimodal stimulation

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This article examines the development of perceptual sensitivity in infants. Findings indicate that infants can detect changes in the synchrony of an object striking a surface by four weeks of age and that they become sensitive to differences in the composition of the striking object by seven weeks of age.

United States, Statistical Data Included, Infants, Infant development, Intersensory effects, Perception in infants, Infant perception

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