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Science 8 March 1974:
Vol. 183. no. 4128, pp. 973 - 975
DOI: 10.1126/science.183.4128.973
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Infant Color Perception

Joseph F. Fagan III 1

1 Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

Human infants 4 to 6 months of age devoted more visual fixation to checkerboards composed of two Munsell hues equated for brightness and saturation than to unpatterned targets of either hue. Strength of pattern preference was positively related to degree of hue difference in the checkerboards.


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