The comparator model of infant visual habituation and dishabituation: Recent insights

• Published in: Developmental psychobiology Vol. 55; no. 8; pp. 793 - 808
• Main Author: Kavsek, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2013
• Subjects: Attention - physiology; Child Development - physiology; comparator model; Habituation, Psychophysiologic - physiology; Humans; Infant; infant attention; infant perception; infant visual dishabituation; infant visual habituation; Models, Psychological; perceptual development; Problem Solving - physiology; Visual Perception - physiology; infant visual dishabituation; infant perception; perceptual development; comparator model; infant visual habituation; infant attention

Current knowledge of the perceptual and cognitive abilities in infancy is largely based on the visual habituation–dishabituation method. According to the comparator model [e.g., Sokolov (1963a) Perception and the conditioned reflex. Oxford: Pergamon Press], habituation refers to stimulus encoding an...