Empirical work on color and psychological functioning has a long history, dating back to the
19th century. This early research focused on five different areas: Arousal, physical strength …

Four experiments were conducted to assess converging aspects of 4-month-old infants'
perception of symmetry in visual patterns. Experiments 1 and 2 manipulated the structure …

Perception of mirror images by three-to four-month infants was studied in five experiments
using habituation paradigms. In the first experiment, babies discriminated right profiles of …

Pattern reversal visually evoked potentials (VEPs) were recorded from 439 infants and
young children ranging in age from 1 month to 5 years in response to large and small …

Publisher Summary This chapter surveys behavioral data on the early ontogeny of chromatic
vision and information processing in man. Because detailed pattern perception and color …

This study examined whether infants can discriminate form on the basis of symmetrical
organization when other stimulus factors are equated. 48 4-month-olds were tested in a …

We hypothesized an association between auditory stimulus structure and activity in the brain
that underlies infant auditory preference. In a within-infant design, we assessed brain activity …

The researcher attempted to determine whether instruction using colored rhythmic notation
affected first-and second-grade students' rhythm-reading skills. As a regular part of general …

40 BORNSTEIN perceptual world? Despite a long tradition of nativism, among whose
adherents are counted Kant, Hering, and Mach, classical opinion about perceptual …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses several topics from the area of infant research,
which have usually been approached as independent complex phenomena in numerous …