Visual Attention to Size and Number of Pattern Details by Term and Preterm Infants during the First Six Months.

Fantz, Robert L.; Fagan, Joseph F., III

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Publication Date: 1975

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Visual Attention to Size and Number of Pattern Details by Term and Preterm Infants during the First Six Months

Fantz, Robert L.; Fagan, Joseph F., III

Child Development, 46, 1, 3-18, Mar 75

Tests the hypothesis that age-related shifts in infants' visual preferences for stimuli (varying in complexity as defined by number of light-dark intersections) are due to changing attention value both within and between the inversely varying dimensions of size and number. (Author/ED)

Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Perceptual Development, Premature Infants, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli

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