Infant responses to approaching objects: An indicator of response to distal variables (original) (raw)
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Infants show an adaptive avoidance response to approaching objects. The response is affected by the closeness and speed of approach. It is mediated by visual variables. Air-pressure changes do not elicit the response. This kind of response implies discrimination and response to distal variables rather than merely to their proximal mediators.
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- University of Edinburgh, Scotland
T. G. R. Bower - Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
J. M. Broughton & M. K. Moore
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- T. G. R. Bower
- J. M. Broughton
- M. K. Moore
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Supported in part by an NIH grant through Harvard University and by the Medical Research Council through Edinburgh University (G 969/S59/C).
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Bower, T.G.R., Broughton, J.M. & Moore, M.K. Infant responses to approaching objects: An indicator of response to distal variables.Perception & Psychophysics 9, 193–196 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212627
- Accepted: 28 October 1970
- Issue date: March 1971
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212627