Attention and habituation: separation of specific components in development.
Physiol Behav
; 41(5): 415-25, 1987.
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ABSTRACT
In four experiments using habituation procedures, it was shown that selective investigation of stimuli that are novel gradually developed between 13 and 28 days of age in gerbil pups. The youngest pups investigated the stimuli, but were highly variable in their responses to an object or to odors of conspecifics. Habituation could, but did not reliably, occur. By 21 days of age, investigation of a cup attenuated in a series of 5 one-minute trials and responses increased after the cup was moved to a new location. By 28 days of age, reliable habituation was shown 24 hours after a one-minute exposure to a cup. The data were used to infer how an immature process of selective attention may be responsible for variability in expression of habituation during development.
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Assunto principal:
Atenção
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Gerbillinae
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Habituação Psicofisiológica
Limite:
Animals
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Physiol Behav
Ano de publicação:
1987
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