Looking and Listening Patterns in 4- and 8- Month-Old Infants: Correspondence between Measures of Attention

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorMcIlreavy, Megan Elizabethen
dc.contributor.committeechairCooper, Robin K. Pannetonen
dc.contributor.committeememberCooper, Lee D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBell, Martha Annen
dc.contributor.committeememberStephens, Robert S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDunsmore, Julie C.en
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:12:05Zen
dc.date.adate2006-06-27en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:12:05Zen
dc.date.issued2006-05-01en
dc.date.rdate2007-06-27en
dc.date.sdate2006-05-15en
dc.description.abstractThe development of perceptual-cognitive processes during infancy has been traditionally studied using visual habituation and paired-comparison techniques. There has been extensive work within the field of infant attention that has focused on the development of visual attention. Within this field, it has been well established that there are two distinct classifications of infants' visual behavior; infants with short visual fixations who perform well in a recognition task following familiarization and infants with long visual fixation with impaired performance. There are two hypotheses for the differences underlying these groups. First, that visual fixation duration is reflective of the speed of information processing such that long-looking infants process information more slowly than short-looking infants. The second hypothesis is that infants who are long-looking have difficulty disengaging and shifting their attention to another location. There has not been any work exploring how these differences manifest themselves in other modalities. Thus, this project has three purposes: (1) to explore whether group differences emerge in an auditory recognition task similar to those found in the visual recognition phase of the paired-comparison task, (2) to better understand how performance differences in the visual task correspond to any observed differences in an auditory task, and (3) to identify any potential mechanisms which may account for the observed differences in group performance on an auditory task.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-05152006-161027en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05152006-161027/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/27727en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartMEMETD2.PDFen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectInfant attentionen
dc.subjectheart rateen
dc.subjectvisual and auditory perceptionen
dc.titleLooking and Listening Patterns in 4- and 8- Month-Old Infants: Correspondence between Measures of Attentionen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychologyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
MEMETD2.PDF
Size:
605.05 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Doctoral Dissertations