title: Visual habituation at five months: short-term reliability of measures obtained with a new polynomial regression criterion.
abstract: Using a new polynomial regression criterion, the authors investigated empirically the short-term reliability of infants' visual habituation measures. Twenty-one 5-month-old infants were tested twice with a 1-day interval. Results revealed many reliable habituation measures, a reliable reaction to novelty measure, and a new reliable measure of interest. The 2nd-order polynomial regression criterion probably produced this improvement because it uses all of the available looking time data.
authors.affiliation: Ecole de Psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, PQ, Canada.
authors.forename: Chantale
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lavoie
authors.forename: Stéphan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Desrochers
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric