Authors
Elizabeth M Brannon, Sumarga Suanda, Klaus Libertus
Publication date
2007/11
Journal
Developmental science
Volume
10
Issue
6
Pages
770-777
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Description
Time perception is important for many aspects of human behavior, and a large literature documents that adults represent intervals and that their ability to discriminate temporal intervals is ratio dependent. Here we replicate a recent study by vanMarle and Wynn (2006 ) that used the visual habituation paradigm and demonstrated that temporal discrimination in 6‐month‐old infants is also ratio dependent. We further demonstrate that between 6 and 10 months of age temporal discrimination increases in precision such that by 10 months of age infants succeed at discriminating a 2:3 ratio, a ratio that 6‐month‐old infants were unable to discriminate. We discuss the potential implications of the fact that temporal discrimination follows the same developmental progression that has been previously observed for number discrimination in infancy ( Lipton & Spelke, 2003 ).
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