Preference for Shapes of Intermediate Variability in the Newborn Human
- 5 February 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 147 (3658), 630-631
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.147.3658.630
Abstract
Newborn humans presented with pairs of shapes, each shape differing in number of turns (angles), prefer shapes with 10 turns to shapes with 5 turns or 20 turns, as inferred from photographic recordings of eye fixations.Keywords
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