Habituation of the Orienting Response to Stimuli of Different Functional Values in 4-Month-Old Infants

Malcuit, Gérard; Bastien, Christian; Pomerleau, Andrée

doi:10.1006/jecp.1996.0031

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“…Other studies have also opted to distinguish the two processes in their experimental design (e.g. Landry et al, 1985;Malcuit et al, 1996). We hypothesized that longer duration (attention-holding) and shorter latency (attention-getting) of attention responses would accompany the use of more complex stimuli, but not that of higher frequencies containing similar levels of complexity.…”

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Attracting and maintaining infant attention during habituation: Further evidence of the importance of stimulus complexity

Richard¹,

Normandeau²,

Brun³

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Infant and Child Development

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We examined the effect of stimulus complexity and frequency on infants' attention responses during an auditory habituation procedure. Five stimuli of different complexity and frequency were presented repeatedly to 80 5-month-old infants. Quicker attention-getting and longer attention-holding responses were obtained with the more complex stimuli. Furthermore, a progressive decrease in attention-holding, but not in attentiongetting, was observed across trials. The findings are similar to those well established in the visual modality [e.g., Cohen et al. showing that auditory complexity is an important variable in attracting and maintaining infant attention, and that only attention-holding is subject to habituation. Although the complex stimulus contained higher frequencies than the simple or intermediate stimuli, our results further showed that stimulus frequency alone had no significant effect on attention-getting or attention-holding, which strengthens our claim that complexity preference during habituation can be generalized to the auditory modality.

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Attracting and maintaining infant attention during habituation: Further evidence of the importance of stimulus complexity

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Brun³

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Infant and Child Development

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“…Hunter and Ames proposed that preference for the novel stimulus is inversely related to the amount of familiarization. Malcuit et al (1996) showed that orientation to a stimulus (i.e., the amount of familiarization) is increased by associating it with a reinforcer. The multifactor theory therefore predicts enhanced novelty preference under such circumstances.…”

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“…Although not a novelty preference study, Malcuit, Bastein, and Pomerleau (1996) assessed the impact of reinforcement on infants' orienting responses. Malcuit et al found that orienting responses habituate much slower when attention to the stimulus is followed by a reinforcing event.…”

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The impact of stimulus ‘value’ in infant novelty preference

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“…Although there was a decrease in the duration and frequency of looking over the first 2.5 min of the television presentation, there was no further decline thereafter as infants continued to direct brief looks to the television. Interestingly, a study by Malcuit, Bastien, and Pomerleau (1996) indicated that the functional significance of a stimulus affects its ability to maintain infants' attention over time. They showed that 4-month-olds habituated to a simple, briefly presented visual stimulus.…”

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Background Television and Infants’ Allocation of Their Attention During Toy Play

Setliff¹,

Courage²

2011

Infancy

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The effect of background television on 6-and 12-month-olds' attention during 20 min of toy play was examined. During the first or second half of the session, a clip from a variety of commonly available television programs was presented. The duration and frequency of infants' looks to the toys and to the television indicated that regardless of age or program content, background television frequently got, but did not hold the infants' attention. An order effect indicated that infants looked longer at the television when it was available in the second half of the session. Examination of infants' focused attention to the toys showed a reduction in the mean length of focused episodes when the television was on. A follow-up of the infants at 24 months indicated greater resistance to distraction by the television during play. Data from the three ages showed that individual differences in the amount of viewing were moderately stable across age and across home and lab contexts.

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Habituation of the Orienting Response to Stimuli of Different Functional Values in 4-Month-Old Infants

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Attracting and maintaining infant attention during habituation: Further evidence of the importance of stimulus complexity

Attracting and maintaining infant attention during habituation: Further evidence of the importance of stimulus complexity

The impact of stimulus ‘value’ in infant novelty preference

Background Television and Infants’ Allocation of Their Attention During Toy Play

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