1st Edition

Habituation Perspectives from Child Development, Animal Behavior, and Neurophysiology

Edited By Thomas J. Tighe, Robert N. Leaton Copyright 1976
370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1976, this volume is based on a conference held in 1974. The purpose of the conference was to foster communication between those researchers studying habituation or closely related processes in children and those studying habituation at the level of neurophysiology and animal behaviour. Within each of these groups there was burgeoning interest in habituation, yet there had... Read more

Preface  1. An Invertebrate System for the Cellular Study of Habituation and Sensitization Vincent Castellucci and Eric Kandel  2. Neural and Behavioral Mechanisms of Habituation and Sensitization Richard F. Thompson and Dennis L. Glanzman  3. Priming in STM: An Information-Processing Mechanism for Self-Generated or Retrieval-Generated Depression in Performance Allan R. Wagner  4. Neural and Psychological Processes Underlying the Development of Learning and Memory Byron A. Campbell and Xenia Coulter  5. Developmental Study of Habituation in Infants: The Importance of Paradigm, Response System, and State Rachel Keen Clifton and Michael N. Nelson  6. Habituation of Infant Visual Attention Leslie B. Cohen  7. An Information-Processing Analysis of Visual Memory and Habituation in Infants Gary M. Olson  8. Habituation as a Mechanism for Perceptual Development W.E. Jeffrey  9. The Ubiquity of Novelty–Familiarity (Habituation?) Effects David Zeaman  10. Comparisons between Habituation Research at the Developmental and Animal-Neurophysiological Levels R.N. Leaton and T.J. Tighe.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

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Thomas J. Tighe, Robert N. Leaton