Infant Discrimination of Orientation NICHD

Author(s):

McGurk, Harry

Publication Year:

1972

Report Number:

RB-72-14

Source:

ETS Research Bulletin

Document Type:

Report

Page Count:

26

Subject/Key Words:

National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Social Science Research Council, London, England, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Learning, Perceptual Development, Visual Discrimination

Abstract

Infants in four age groups -- three, six, nine and twelve months -- were exposed to an experimental procedure designed to assess the extent to which such subjects were capable of discriminating between different orientations of the same form, and the extent to which they were capable of recognizing the identity between different orientations of the same form. Results revealed that from at least as early as six months, infants manifest both kinds of perceptual ability. (Author) (26pp.)

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