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Experience with research paradigms relates to infants' direction of preference.

Experience with research paradigms relates to infants' direction of preference.

Authors :
Santolin C
Garcia-Castro G
Zettersten M
Sebastian-Galles N
Saffran JR
Source :
Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies [Infancy] 2021 Jan; Vol. 26 (1), pp. 39-46. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Oct 27.
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

Interpreting and predicting direction of preference in infant research has been a thorny issue for decades. Several factors have been proposed to account for familiarity versus novelty preferences, including age, length of exposure, and task complexity. The current study explores an additional dimension: experience with the experimental paradigm. We reanalyzed the data from 4 experiments on artificial grammar learning in 12-month-old infants run using the head-turn preference procedure (HPP). Participants in these studies varied substantially in their number of laboratory visits. Results show that the number of HPP studies is related to direction of preference: Infants with limited experience with the HPP setting were more likely to show familiarity preferences than infants who had amassed more experience with this paradigm. This evidence has important implications for the interpretation of experimental results: Experience with a given method or, more broadly, with the laboratory environment may affect infants' patterns of preferences.<br /> (© 2020 International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS).)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1532-7078
Volume :
26
Issue :
1
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
33111438
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12372