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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Sci. 2016 Dec 29;21(2):10.1111/desc.12522. doi: 10.1111/desc.12522

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

The shift from familiarity to novelty preferences. (A) Fullterm infants (from Ferry et al., 2010; Fulkerson & Waxman, 2007) shift from familiarity to novelty preferences between 12 and 13 months post conception (that is, between 3 and 4 months since birth). (B) We make two predictions for preterm infants, considering as an example infants born a month early, at 8 months post conception. (B1) If postnatal experience undergirds the shift from familiarity to novelty preferences, then infants born one month early should show the shift (dotted arrow) between 11 and 12 months post conception (that is, between 3 and 4 months since birth). (B2) If there are maturational constraints on the effect of postnatal experience, then infants born one month early should show the shift between 12 and 13 months post conception (that is, between 4 and 5 months since birth).