title: Stimulus self-selection and the assessment of visual preferences in four-month-old infants.
abstract: A self-stimulation choice technique was used to assess visual preferences in 4-mo--ld infants for slides of stimuli-depicting smiling vs neutral facial expressions. Preferential self-selection of stimuli did not occur even in the presence of preferential looking responses by infants.
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D005149:Facial Expression; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012653:Self Stimulation