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Visual habituation and dishabituation in preterm infants: a review and meta-analysis.
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- Preterm Birth and the Development of Visual Attention During the First 2 Years of Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2021Pooled it
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- Infant Habituation Task Performance Is Associated With Familial Risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.JAACAP open · 2026Article
- Reliability, repeatability, and age associations of the dogSIT (dog Smell Interaction Test) battery in untrained companion dogs (Canis lupus familiaris).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Evidence of Top-Down Sensory Prediction in Neonates Within 2 Days of Birth.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Individual recognition in a jumping spider (eLife · 2025Article
- Cognitive Competences in Preterm Infants across the First Year of Life: Assessments of Continuity, Stability, Coherence, Prediction, and Moderation by Infant Age and Country of Origin.International journal of behavioral development · 2025Article
- Attrition in a large-scale habituation task administered at home.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2025Article
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- Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
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- Foundations of attention sharing: Orienting and responding to attention in term and preterm 5-month-old infants.Infant behavior & development · 2020Article
- Neurologic Consequences of Preterm Birth.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2018Review
- Maturation constrains the effect of exposure in linking language and thought: evidence from healthy preterm infants.Developmental science · 2018Article
- The Efficiency of Infants' Exploratory Play Is Related to Longer-Term Cognitive Development.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
We review comparative studies of infant habituation and dishabituation performance focusing on preterm infants. Habituation refers to cognitive encoding, and dishabituation refers to discrimination and memory. If habituation and dishabituation constitute basic information-processing skills, and preterm infants suffer cognitive disadvantages, then preterms should show diminished habituation and dishabituation performance. Our review provides evidence that preterm infants' habituation and dishabituation are impoverished relative to term infants. On the whole, effect sizes indicated that the differences between preterms and terms are of a medium magnitude. We also find that preterms' performance is moderated by risk factors, stimulus materials, procedural variables, and age. These factors need to be taken into account in the construction of tests in which habituation-dishabituation tasks are employed. Overall, the habituation-dishabituation paradigm presents a promising approach in the diagnosis of cognitive status and development in preterm infants.
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