This thesis is concerned with the responses of human infants to novel visual stimuli. Novelty
is defined in terms of a time dimension so that a stimulus which is presented to the subject
for a period of time (familiarisation period) is said to be novel relative to a stimulus
which has not been so presented. Experiments demonstrated that infants will fixate a novel
stimulus longer than they fixate a familiar stimulus. This effect was shown to be greater
when familiar and novel stimuli differ from each other in two dimensions than when they
differ in only one dimension. The decline in responsiveness to stimuli presented for a
familiarisation period was shown to be a linear function of time. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/25204 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Saayman, Graham |
| Contributors | Wardwell, E. S., Psychology |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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