Compound-Stimulus Information Processing by 3-Month-Old Infants
- 1 September 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Genetic Psychology
- Vol. 146 (3) , 357-365
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.1985.9914464
Abstract
According to Cohen's (1973) component-compound developmental hypothesis, before 20 weeks of age, infants do not process compound-stimulus information when presented with simple colored forms. This hypothesis was examined in the present study. Eighty 3-month-old infants were presented with novel and familiar simple colored forms (e.g., red square vs. green square). Conditions were controlled so that novelty discriminations based on component- or compound-stimulus information could be separated. Contrary to the component-compound developmental hypothesis, the results indicate that by 12 weeks of age infants encode compound-stimulus information when presented with simple colored forms. These results are discussed in terms of the property-set model of stimulus recognition (Hayes-Roth & Hayes-Roth, 1977).This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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