Dineen J T, Meyer W J
Dev Psychobiol. 1980 Mar;13(2):123-30. doi: 10.1002/dev.420130204.
Ten male infants, 3--4 months old, and 10 male infants, 6--7 months old, were habituated to a visual stimulus composed of both specific featural and structural information. After habituation, orienting magnitude (dishabituation) to changes in feature with structure controlled versus changes in structure with feature controlled was used as a means of measuring the infant's processing capacity. Results indicate that younger and older infants were habituated over the habituation trials but that younger and older infants differed significantly in dishabituation to changes in structure and feature information. The present findings support the hypothesis that feature and structure information are both independently important to visual processing in the human infant.
十名3至4个月大的男婴和十名6至7个月大的男婴习惯了一种由特定特征和结构信息组成的视觉刺激。习惯化后，在结构受控的情况下对特征变化的定向幅度（去习惯化）与在特征受控的情况下对结构变化的定向幅度被用作衡量婴儿处理能力的一种手段。结果表明，在习惯化试验中，年龄较小和较大的婴儿都习惯了，但在对结构和特征信息变化的去习惯化方面，年龄较小和较大的婴儿存在显著差异。目前的研究结果支持这样一种假设，即特征和结构信息对人类婴儿的视觉处理都具有独立的重要性。
