“…Researchers first seized on the preference for novelty as a means to study infants' basic sensory abilities to discriminate colors, forms, orientations, levels of complexity, and so forth (cf. Bornstein, Kessen, & Weiskopf, 1976;Caron & Caron, 1968,1969Cohen, Gelber, & Lazar, 1971;Cornell, 1975;Martin, 1975;McGurk, 1972). The habituation paradigm was next adapted to study higher level perceptual processes, including size and shape constancy (Caron, Caron, & Carlson, 1979;Day k McKenzie, 1981;McKenzie, Tootell, & Day, 1980), memory across delays and interference (Cohen, Debache, & Pearl, 1977;Fagan, 1973;Pancratz & Cohen, 1970), and face perception (Barrera & Maurer, 1981;Cohen & Strauss, 1979; Dirks & Gibson, 1977;Fagan, 1972).…”