| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917430 | Infant Behavior and Development | 2010 | 10 Pages |
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.
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Authors
Karinna B. Hurley, Kristine A. Kovack-Lesh, Lisa M. Oakes,