TITLE:
                 Individual differences in infant fixation duration: Dominance of global versus local stimulus
                 properties.
AUTHOR:
                 Colombo, John | Freeseman, Laura J. | Coldren, Jeffrey T. | Frick, Janet E.
AUTH. AFFIL:
                 U Kansas, Dept of Human Development, Lawrence, USA
PUBLISHED:
                 1995
PUBLICATION:
                 Cognitive Development | 1995 Apr-Jun | Vol 10 (2) | pp. 271-285
NOTES:
                 Doc. Type: Journal Article | English | Form/Content Type: Empirical Study | ISSN/ISBN: 0885-2014

 ABSTRACT: Three experiments investigated the dominance of global vs local visual properties in 52 4-mo-old infants as a
 function of individual differences in fixation duration. Dominance was assessed through paired-comparison discrimination
 tasks in which global and local visual properties were placed in competition with one another for Ss' attention. Familiarization
 time was varied parametrically across experiments. Short-looking Ss showed responses consistent with a global-to-local
 sequence of processing: Dominance for the global attribute was supplanted by dominance for the local attribute as
 familiarization was extended. Long-looking Ss did not show dominance for either visual property until after considerable
 familiarization. When dominance was observed for this group, it was for the local visual attribute. ((c) 1997 APA/PsycINFO,
 all rights reserved)

 DESCRIPTORS:
        (*=Major)
                 Eye Fixation * | Perceptual Development * | Visual Discrimination * | (Childhood) (Infants)
   KEY PHRASE:
                 individual differences in fixation duration, global vs local visual property dominance, 4 mo olds
  CLASS. CODE:
                 Cognitive & Perceptual Development (2820)
   AGE GROUP:
                 Childhood (birth-12 yrs) | Infancy (1-23 mo)
  POPULATION:
                 Human
       UPDATE:
                 19960101