Short- and Long-Term Stability of Habituation Rate and Looking Time in Four-Month-Old Infants

Ritz, E; Woodruff, A. Bond; Fagen, Jeffrey W.

doi:10.1080/00221325.1984.9923434

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“…For example, there are two important areas to which the HAB model could be applied. First, the issue of individual differences in habituation, which has received substantial attention ( Jankowski et al, 2001;Jankowski & Rose, 1997;Bronson, 1991;Mayes & Kessen, 1989;Colombo, Mitchell, Obrien, & Horowitz, 1987a, 1987bBornstein & Benasich, 1986;Ritz, Rose & Feldman, 1984;Woodruff, & Fagen, 1984;Rose et al, 1982Rose et al, , 2002McCall, 1979). Gilmore and Thomas (2002) view habituation data as noise around a monotonic decreasing exponential function.…”

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An Interacting Systems Model of Infant Habituation

Sirois

Mareschal

2004

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Habituation and related procedures are the primary behavioral tools used to assess perceptual and cognitive competence in early infancy. This article introduces a neurally constrained computational model of infant habituation. The model combines the two leading process theories of infant habituation into a single functional system that is grounded in functional brain circuitry. The HAB model (for Habituation, Autoassociation, and Brain) proposes that habituation behaviors emerge from the opponent, complementary processes of hippocampal selective inhibition and cortical long-term potentiation. Simulations of a seminal experiment by Fantz [Visual experience in infants: Decreased attention familiar patterns relative to novel ones. Science, 146, 668-670, 1964] are reported. The ability of the model to capture the fine detail of infant data (especially age-related changes in performance) underlines the useful contribution of neurocomputational models to our understanding of behavior in general, and of early cognition in particular.

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An Interacting Systems Model of Infant Habituation

Sirois

Mareschal

2004

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Nonduration Variables a) Number offixations through habituation.-The number of looks to the stimulus to habituation has been used as one index of the rate or speed of habituation (McCall et al, 1977;Ritz et al, 1984). We have included the two criterion fixations in this variable.…”

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“…More recently, some scattered estimates of the internal consistency of early habituation and dishabituation measures have begun to appear. For example, Ritz, Woodruff, and Fagen (1984) tested 4-month-olds twice within a session and again 1 week later and examined the consistency of total looking time and number of looks to habituation. Total looking time was significantly correlated within the immediate sessions, but habituation rate (number of looks to habituation) was not, and neither measure was reliable 1 week later.…”

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The Stability of Visual Habituation during the First Year of Life

Colombo¹,

Mitchell²,

O’Brien³

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Child Development

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The short-term reliability and long-term stability of visual habituation and dishabituation in infancy were assessed in a sample of 186 infants from 4 age groups (3-, 4-, 7-, and 9-month-olds) seen for 2 within-age sessions and in a sample of 69 infants seen longitudinally at 3, 4, 7, and 9 months of age. Moderate week-to-week reliability (r's = .30-.50) was observed for duration-based and magnitude of habituation variables at all ages, although better reliability was evident at 4 and 9 months than at 3 and 7 months. In most cases, the reliability of habituation magnitude measures was attributable to the reliability of the peak fixation alone. Data from the longitudinal sample suggested that only the duration of peak fixation was consistently stable across the ages tested, although stability for several measures emerged across the 7-9-month testing. No consistent reliability or stability emerged for the presence or magnitude of dishabituation in either sample.

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Maturational changes in measures of habituation

Mayes

Kessen

1989

Infant Behavior and Development

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Short- and Long-Term Stability of Habituation Rate and Looking Time in Four-Month-Old Infants

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An Interacting Systems Model of Infant Habituation

An Interacting Systems Model of Infant Habituation

The Stability of Visual Habituation during the First Year of Life

Maturational changes in measures of habituation

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