Biological Components of Colour Preference in Infancy

Autor/inn/en	Franklin, Anna; Bevis, Laura; Ling, Yazhu; Hurlbert, Anya
Titel	Biological Components of Colour Preference in Infancy
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 13 (2010) 2, S.346-354 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00884.x
Schlagwörter	Infants; Color; Developmental Psychology; Visual Stimuli; Eye Movements; Visual Discrimination; Gender Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Entwicklungspsychologie; Augenbewegung; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	Adult colour preference has been summarized quantitatively in terms of weights on the two fundamental neural processes that underlie early colour encoding: the S-(L+M) ("blue-yellow") and L-M ("red-green") cone-opponent contrast channels ( Ling, Hurlbert & Robinson, 2006; Hurlbert & Ling, 2007). Here, we investigate whether colour preference in 4-5-month-olds may be analysed in the same way. We recorded infants' eye-movements in response to pairwise presentations of eight colour stimuli varying only in hue. Infants looked longest at reddish and shortest at greenish hues. Analyses revealed that the L-M and S-(L+M) contrast between stimulus colour and background explained around half of the variation in infant preference across the hue spectrum. Unlike adult colour preference patterns, there was no evidence for sex differences in the weights on either of the cone-opponent contrast components. The findings provide a quantitative model of infant colour preference that summarizes variation in infant preference across hues. (As Provided).
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