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Red to Green or Fast to Slow? Infants' Visual Working Memory for “Just Salient Differences”
Author(s) -
Kaldy Zsuzsa,
Blaser Erik
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/cdev.12086
Subject(s) - salient , salience (neuroscience) , psychology , working memory , cognitive psychology , feature (linguistics) , object (grammar) , developmental psychology , communication , cognition , artificial intelligence , computer science , linguistics , neuroscience , philosophy
In this study, 6‐month‐old infants' visual working memory for a static feature (color) and a dynamic feature (rotational motion) was compared. Comparing infants' use of different features can only be done properly if experimental manipulations to those features are equally salient (Kaldy & Blaser, 2009; Kaldy, Blaser, & Leslie, 2006). The interdimensional salience mapping method was used to find two objects that each were one Just Salient Difference from a common baseline object ( N = 16). These calibrated stimuli were then used in a subsequent two‐alternative forced‐choice preferential looking memory test ( N = 28). Results showed that infants noted the color change, but not the equally salient change in rotation speed.