Relationships between measures of habituation and performance on cognitive tasks at
27 and 39 months of age and between these and previously reported assessments (at 15
months and early infancy) were examined for 29 children. Some stability of
habituation rate is evidenced, but results do not offer strong support for the
notion that faster habituators are somewhat more advanced cognitively than their
slower counterparts.
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