Infant Perception: from Sensation to Cognition
Basic Visual Processes
- 1st Edition - November 14, 2013
- Latest edition
- Editors: Leslie B. Cohen, Philip Salapatek
- Language: English
Infant Perception: From Sensation to Cognition, Volume I: Basic Visual Processes focuses on the study and programmatic investigations of infant perception, examining early sensory,… Read more
Infant Perception: From Sensation to Cognition, Volume I: Basic Visual Processes focuses on the study and programmatic investigations of infant perception, examining early sensory, perceptual, and cognitive systems. This book is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 analyzes the major physiological and behavioral techniques used to measure infant vision. Each technique is critically evaluated in terms of the method employed, type of data that can be obtained, and anatomy of the visual system. The neuronal model to explain developmental changes and techniques used to assess infant visual preferences for patterns varying in amount of contour are discussed in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 demonstrates the value of the corneal reflection technique for the study of infant attention and visual scanning patterns, while Chapter 4 examines the developmental changes and individual differences in early pattern perception. The last chapter concentrates on the evidence of infant visual preferences for novelty and on the implications of such evidence for models of early recognition memory. This publication is a good reference for pediatricians and clinicians concerned with infant perception.
List of Contributors
Preface
Contents of Volume II
Chapter 1: Infant Visual Perception: Methods of Study
I. Introduction
II. Anatomy
III. The Electroretinogram
IV. Visually Evoked Potential
V. Electrooculography
VI. Optokinetic Nystagmus
VII. Corneal Reflection
VIII. Conclusion
References
Chapter 2: A Neuronal Activity Model for Infant Visual Attention
I. Behavioral Preferences
II. Visual System Maturation Related to Pattern Processing at the Neurological Level
III. Measurement of Gross Electrical Phenomena Assumed to Correlate with Activity in Pools of Neurons
IV. Cortically Evoked Potentials
V. Infant Pattern-Dependent VEPs
VI. General Implications and Conclusions
VII. Summary
References
Chapter 3: Pattern Perception in Early Infancy
I. Introduction
II. Theories of Perceptual Learning and Development
III. Lines of Evidence Particularly Relevant to Innate Organization, Focal Processing, and Oculomotor Involvement in Perceptual Learning and Development
IV. Infant Research Relevant to the Issues Raised
V. Early Perceptual Development Reconsidered
VI. Two versus Three Dimensions, Figure versus Object, and Static versus Dynamic Cues: The Limitations of This Chapter
References
Chapter 4: Early Visual Selectivity
I. Introduction
II. Method and Concepts
III. Form Variations
IV. Quantitative Pattern Variations
V. Other Stimulus Variations
VI. Variations in Subject Samples
VII. Discussion and Theory
References
Chapter 5: Infant Visual Memory
I. Introduction
II. Qualitative Changes in Memory Development
III. Behaviors Implying Infant Memory
IV. Paired-Comparison versus Habituation Paradigms
V. Parameters Affecting Infant Recognition
VI. Models of Infant Habituation and Memory
VII. Summary and Conclusions
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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- Published: November 14, 2013
- Language: English
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