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ERIC Number: EJ439957
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Individual Differences in Infant Visual Attention: Are Short Lookers Faster Processors or Feature Processors?
Colombo, John; And Others
Child Development, v62 n6 p1247-57 Dec 1991
Four experiments tested four month olds on visual discrimination tasks. As the time allotted to solve these problems was shortened, infants who looked at stimuli for a short amount of time performed better than other infants, indicating that performance superiority was attributable to speed of processing. (BC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Eye Fixations, Individual Differences, Infants, Visual Discrimination, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Fixation Duration; Processing Speed (Psychology); Visual Attention