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Experience with research paradigms relates to infants' direction of preference.
Experience with research paradigms relates to infants' direction of preference.
- Source :
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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
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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).)
- Subjects :
- Biomedical Research methods
Eye Movements physiology
Female
Humans
Infant
Male
Psychology, Developmental methods
Visual Perception physiology
Behavioral Research standards
Biomedical Research standards
Choice Behavior physiology
Infant Behavior physiology
Psychology, Developmental standards
Recognition, Psychology physiology
Subjects
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