Infants look longer at colours that adults like when colours are highly saturated.

ABSTRACT: The extent to which aesthetic preferences are 'innate' has been highly debated (Reber, Schwarz, & Winkielman, Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(4), 364-382, 2004). For some types of visual stimuli infants look longer at those that adults prefer. It is unclear whether this is also the case for colour. A lack of relationship in prior studies between how long infants look at different colours and how much adults like those colours might be accounted for by stimulus limitations. For example, stimuli may have been too desaturated for infant vision. In the current study, using saturated colours more suitable for infants, we aim to quantify the relationship between infant looking and adult preference for colour. We take infant looking times at multiple hues from a study of infant colour

SUBMITTER: Skelton AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7000485 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature