Locus of Habituation in the Human Newborn
Locus of Habituation in the Human Newborn
复制标题
人类新生儿的习惯轨迹
作者：
A. Slater;V. Morison;D. Rose
关于婴儿何时会习惯于视觉刺激或何时会喜欢新奇的东西而不喜欢熟悉的图案，存在一些争议。一个建议是，新生儿适应和不适应的明显成功的报告可归因于视网膜适应。这一解释在两个实验中进行了测试。在这两个实验单眼条件下观看：新生儿习惯了一只眼睛作为“看”的眼睛，和posthabituation新奇的喜好调查与其他眼睛。显着的偏好都发现了一种新的颜色（实验1）和一种新的形状（实验2），这意味着可以排除视网膜适应模型。有人建议，在实验中发现的习惯化效应和随后的新奇偏好是最合理的解释为记忆形成的函数，并提出证据存储的视觉经验从出生。结果还表明，在新生儿的双目互动的某种形式。
There is some controversy concerning the youngest age at which an infant will habituate to a visual stimulus or will prefer a novel to a familiar pattern. One suggestion has been that apparently successful reports of habituation and dishabituation in the newborn baby are attributable to retinal adaptation. This interpretation was tested in two experiments. In both experiments monocular conditions of viewing were used: newborns were habituated with one eye as the ‘seeing’ eye, and posthabituation novelty preferences investigated with the other eye. Significant preferences were found both for a novel colour (experiment 1) and for a novel shape (experiment 2), which implies that a retinal-adaptation model can be ruled out. It is suggested that the habituation effects and the subsequent novelty preferences found in the experiments are most reasonably interpreted as a function of memory formation, and evidence is presented for the storage of visual experience from birth. The results also demonstrate some form of binocular interaction in the newborn.