PMID- 9142503
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19970729
LR  - 20191102
IS  - 0012-1630 (Print)
IS  - 0012-1630 (Linking)
VI  - 30
IP  - 4
DP  - 1997 May
TI  - Sensitizing properties of spectral lights in 4-month-old human infants.
PG  - 275-81
AB  - Previous studies of infant attention, learning, and memory have revealed that 
      certain stimulus properties may increase an infant's arousal or excitation level, 
      thereby increasing responsiveness and facilitating the encoding and processing of 
      information. In a series of experiments aimed at identifying stimulus 
      determinants of sensitization, we examined visual responses from 4-month-old 
      infants to spectral lights. Habituation data were obtained from 92 full-term 
      infants separated into one of five groups. Each group viewed either a broadband 
      white light (correlated color temperature approximately 2800 K) or one of four 
      different spectral lights (lambda d = 470, 510, 570, or 650 nm) approximately 
      corresponding to the elemental hues blue, green, yellow and red, respectively, 
      for adults with normal trichromatic vision. Stimuli were equated in luminous 
      efficiency for a standard infant observer. Stimulus fixation was recorded for 
      twelve 10-s presentations, each separated by 10-s interstimulus intervals (ISIs). 
      The results show that mean fixation times to the red and green lights were 
      significantly greater than those for the blue and white light. Mean fixation time 
      for the yellow light was also reduced (significantly) compared to the red but not 
      the green light. These results suggest that the chromatic properties of red and 
      green spectral lights may be more sensitizing to infants than those of the blue, 
      yellow, or white lights.
FAU - Bieber, M L
AU  - Bieber ML
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0345, USA.
FAU - Kaplan, P S
AU  - Kaplan PS
FAU - Rosier, E
AU  - Rosier E
FAU - Werner, J S
AU  - Werner JS
LA  - eng
GR  - HD19143/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Clinical Trial
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Randomized Controlled Trial
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - Dev Psychobiol
JT  - Developmental psychobiology
JID - 0164074
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Arousal
MH  - *Attention
MH  - *Color Perception
MH  - Female
MH  - Fixation, Ocular
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Male
MH  - Photic Stimulation
MH  - *Psychology, Child
EDAT- 1997/05/01 00:00
MHDA- 2000/06/20 09:00
CRDT- 1997/05/01 00:00
PHST- 1997/05/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2000/06/20 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 1997/05/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199705)30:4<275::AID-DEV1>3.0.CO;2-L [pii]
AID - 10.1002/(sici)1098-2302(199705)30:4<275::aid-dev1>3.0.co;2-l [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Dev Psychobiol. 1997 May;30(4):275-81. doi: 
      10.1002/(sici)1098-2302(199705)30:4<275::aid-dev1>3.0.co;2-l.