Habituation Helps Measure Infant Attention

Habituation helps scientists measure infant attention before babies can talk. Researchers study infants because they have had very few life experiences, so they can offer clear clues about human thinking and learning. Studying them is challenging because young infants cannot reliably speak, understand speech, or even move an...

To explore the early stages of conceptual development?when infants are unable to reliably speak, understand speech, or precisely control movements?researchers have established clever techniques that use habituation methods.

Like adults, infants prefer to pay attention to new and interesting things. If left in the same environment, over tim...