Habituation Perspectives from Child Development, Animal Behavior, and Neurophysiology Psychology Library Editions: Cognitive Science Series

Originally published in 1976, this volume is based on a conference held in 1974. The purpose of the conference was to foster communication between those researchers studying habituation or closely related processes in children and those studying habituation at the level of neurophysiology and animal behaviour. Within each of these groups there was burgeoning interest in habituation, yet there had been little, if any, interaction between them.

Overall, this volume provides a medium for cross-fertilization between animal-neurophysiological and developmental research on habituation, highlighting some of the current empirical and theoretical concerns within each area at the time. While other volumes may have provided more comprehensive and detailed reviews of aspects of habituation, the juxtaposition of developmental and animal neuro-physiological research provided in this text was unique in the literature at the time.

Preface 1. An Invertebrate System for the Cellular Study of Habituation and Sensitization Vincent Castellucci and Eric Kandel 2. Neural and Behavioral Mechanisms of Habituation and Sensitization Richard F. Thompson and Dennis L. Glanzman 3. Priming in STM: An Information-Processing Mechanism for Self-Generated or Retrieval-Generated Depression in Performance Allan R. Wagner 4. Neural and Psychological Processes Underlying the Development of Learning and Memory Byron A. Campbell and Xenia Coulter 5. Developmental Study of Habituation in Infants: The Importance of Paradigm, Response System, and State Rachel Keen Clifton and Michael N. Nelson 6. Habituation of Infant Visual Attention Leslie B. Cohen 7. An Information-Processing Analysis of Visual Memory and Habituation in Infants Gary M. Olson 8. Habituation as a Mechanism for Perceptual Development W.E. Jeffrey 9. The Ubiquity of Novelty–Familiarity (Habituation?) Effects David Zeaman 10. Comparisons between Habituation Research at the Developmental and Animal-Neurophysiological Levels R.N. Leaton and T.J. Tighe. Author Index. Subject Index.