Habituation of attention as a measure of visual information processing in human infants: Summary, systematization, and synthesis.

Abstract

synthesizes the vast literature bearing on the habituation of attention as a measure of visual information processing in human infants / covers the use of habituation to study the infant's sensation, perception, and cognition in the form of experiments concerning detection and discrimination, categorization, memory, concept formation, and individual differences in cognition / concludes that habituation is a powerful, mutually understandable . . . experimental language that can be established readily between developmental investigators and human infants