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Habituation: Studying Infants Before They Can Talk
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles, Judith Danovitch, and Cara Cashon—University of Louisville Infants are one of the purest sources of information about human thinking and learning, because they’ve had very few life experiences. Thus, researchers are interested in gathering data from infants, but as participants in experimental research, they are a challenging group to study. Unlike older children and adults, young infants are unable to reliably speak, understand speech, or even move and...
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A Standardized Obstacle Course for Assessment of Visual Function in Ultra Low Vision and Artificial Vision
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2014
We describe an indoor, portable, standardized course that can be used to evaluate obstacle avoidance in persons who have ultralow vision. The course is relatively inexpensive, simple to administer, and has been shown to be reliable and reproducible.
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P50 Sensory Gating in Infants
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2013
Methods to record auditory P50 sensory gating, a physiological marker of cerebral inhibition which reflects early stages of attention, are described.
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Using Your Head: Measuring Infants' Rational Imitation of Actions
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville One of the main challenges of infancy is to learn how to achieve one’s goals in the world, whether they are to pick up a toy or to express desires to another person, and one of the most powerful tools in this learning process is imitation. However, imitation is not always as simple as copying other people’s actions; it is also necessary to realize that goals and intentions guide behavior. The world is a...
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Infant Auditory Processing and Event-related Brain Oscillations
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2015
High-density electroencephalography (dEEG) is being used increasingly to study brain development and plasticity in the early years of life. Here we present an application of sophisticated analysis techniques that builds on traditional EEG recording to understand the oscillatory dynamics of rapid auditory processing in the infant brain.
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Development depends on coordinated maturation of the retina, optic pathways, and visual cortex. As these structures become more capable, infants can increasingly organize information from faces, objects, patterns, and movement. This progression helps explain why visual behavior changes rapidly during early childhood and why researchers examine several visual abilities rather than treating vision as a single, fixed capacity.
Repeated exposure to faces, objects, patterns, and movement helps organize perception and visual attention. Experience therefore contributes to how infants select and respond to visual information while their visual system is developing. In psychological research, this connection allows investigators to consider both biological maturation and learning when examining emerging abilities such as object processing or face recognition.
These abilities provide behavioral evidence about how early visual information becomes organized. Face recognition concerns responses to socially important visual patterns, whereas object processing concerns how infants respond to things in their environment. Examining both helps psychologists connect visual development with broader cognitive development, including the ways sensation supports interpretation, attention, and learning.
Visual sensation supplies information through which infants encounter faces, objects, patterns, and movement, while repeated experience helps organize that information. Studying this relationship shows how early visual exposure may shape developing perception and attention. The findings contribute to psychological accounts of how basic sensory capacities become linked with learning and later behavior.
Assessment can examine several abilities described in infant development, including detecting, focusing on, interpreting, and responding to visual information. Researchers may also study face recognition, depth perception, object processing, and visual attention. Considering this range helps distinguish different aspects of development and can provide evidence about whether visual behavior is progressing as expected.
It is useful when researchers investigate early cognitive development or when clinicians evaluate possible atypical development. Findings can clarify how early visual experience relates to later behavior and can support decisions about early intervention. The topic also connects psychological theory with practical assessment by linking observable visual responses to developing perception, attention, and cognition.