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Using Habituation of Looking Time to Assess Mental Processes in Infancy

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Habituation of looking time has become the standard method for studying cognitive processes in infancy. This method has a long history and derives from the study of memory and habituation itself. Often, however, it is not clear how researchers make decisions about how to implement habituation as a tool to study processes such as categorization, object representation, and memory. This article describes the challenges for implementing this tool, and describes a set of best practices for its use to study perception and cognition in infancy.

Source: Journal of Cognition and Development

DOI: 10.1080/15248371003699977

Author: Lisa M. Oakes

Institution: University of California, Davis

Language: English

Topic: Child and Animal Learning Development

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Award: The development of object representation in infancy