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Karinna B Hurley1, Kristine A Kovack-Lesh, Lisa M Oakes.
Abstract
We examined how experience at home with pets is related to infants' processing of animal stimuli in a standard laboratory procedure. We presented 6-month-old infants with photographs of cats or dogs and found that infants with pets at home (N=40) responded differently to the pictures than infants without pets (N=40). These results suggest that infants' experience in one context (at home) contributes to their processing of similar stimuli in a different context (the laboratory), and have implications for how infants' early experience shapes basic cognitive processing.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20728223 PMCID: PMC2991405 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.07.015
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infant Behav Dev ISSN: 0163-6383