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Familiarity and novelty effects are the cornerstone of many infant behavioral methods (e.g., habituation, head-turn preference, preferential looking / looking-while-listening, eye tracking). In this ongoing project we investigate Hunter and Ames’ (1988) model of infants’ preference for familiar and novel stimuli. We aim to empirically test whether infant age, task difficulty, and familiarization time interact to predict the direction of infants’ preference for familiar vs. novel stimuli. By comprehensively testing the Hunter and Ames model, we will solidify our foundational understanding of infant curiosity and provide the most comprehensive, global picture of the early foundations of infant cognition to date.
Figure 1. This figure (adapted from Bergmann and Cristia, 2016) depicts Hunter & Ames’ model of infant looking to familiar (plotted up) and novel (plotted down) stimuli at different levels of pre-test familiarization time (shown on the x-axis; Figure 1). The dashed line indicates equal preference for familiar and novel stimuli. The grey line represents the model’s prediction for older infants, and the black line for younger infants. The “lower complexity” and “higher complexity” arrows indicate how the proposed relation between age and familiarization time might shift with variation in stimulus complexity (i.e., the current operationalization of task difficulty).
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Funding
MB5 is supported by an Early Career Award from the Einstein Foundation Berlin.
Credit/© Einstein Foundation Berlin/2470 Media GmbH
Project Leads
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Jessica E. Kosie, Arizona State University
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Martin Zettersten, University of California, San Diego [email]
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Casey Lew-Williams, Princeton University [email]
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Martin Zettersten
Rana Abu-Zhaya
Dima Amso
Mireille Babineau
Heidi A. Baumgartner
Marina Bazhydai
Margherita Belia
Silvia Benavides-Varela
Christina Bergmann
Ilaria Berteletti
Alexis K. Black
Priscila Borba Borges
Arielle Borovsky
Krista Byers-Heinlein
Laurianne Cabrera
Giulia Calignano
Anjie Cao
Christopher M. M. Cox
Rodrigo Dal Ben
Isabelle Dautriche
Michaela C. DeBolt
Anna Exner
Donna Fisher-Thompson
Michael C. Frank
Gökhan Gönül
Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez
Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann
J. Kiley Hamlin
Naomi Havron
Jean-Rémy Hochmann
Stefanie Hoehl
Carmel Houston-Price
George Kachergis
Zsuzsa Kaldy
Osman S. Kingo
Eon-Suk Ko
Shannon P. Kong
Peter Krøjgaard
Shari Liu
Helen Shiyang Lu
Madhavilatha Maganti
Emily Mather
Julien Mayor
Brianna T. M. McMillan
Monika Molnar
David Moreau
Yusuke Moriguchi
Margaret (Meg) C. Moulson
Jutta L. Mueller
Lisa M. Oakes
Sharon Peperkamp
Stefanie Peykarjou
Mónica Taveira Pires
Gal Raz
Pablo E. Requena
Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo
Jenny R. Saffran
Christina Schaetz
Tobias Schuwerk
Jeanne L. Shinskey
Elizabeth A. Simpson
Leher Singh
Erin Smolak
Melanie Soderstrom
Trine Sonne
Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata
Ingmar Visser
Katie Von Holzen
Sandra Waxman
Gert Westermann
Katherine S. White
Kali Woodruff Carr
Katharina Zahner-Ritter
Henriette Zeidler
Lucie Zimmer
Zorana Zupan
Casey Lew-Williams
