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ERIC Number: EJ168249
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1977
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Magnitude of Discrepancy and the Distribution of Attention in Infants
McCall, Robert B.; And Others
Child Development, 48, 3, 772-785, Sep 77
This article reports two attempts to demonstrate the discrepancy hypothesis prediction that visual fixation time for human infants should be an inverted-U function of the magnitude of discrepancy between a new stimulus and a familiar standard. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Attention, Eye Fixations, Infants, Research, Visual Stimuli
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