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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infant Behav Dev. 2017 Nov 10;50:42–51. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2017.10.007

Table 1.

3.5- and 5-month-old infants’ mean look durations (in seconds) to the matching and nonmatching body postures and percentage preferences for the matching stimuli in Experiment 1 (both age groups) and Experiment 2 (5-month-olds only).

Orientation n Matching
[M (SE)]
Nonmatching
[M (SE)]
Percent preference
[M (SE)]
ta pa
Upright (Experiment 1)
3.5-month-olds 20 6.29 (0.61) 7.25 (0.69) 47.17 (4.55) −0.62 .54
5-month-olds 16 7.86 (0.63) 5.19 (0.46) 59.52 (3.70) 2.57 .02*

Inverted (Experiment 2)
5-month-olds 16 6.53 (0.69) 5.99 (0.66) 51.98 (4.51) 0.44 .67

Note. Standard errors are presented in parentheses.

a

Comparison of mean percentage preference score against the chance level of 50%:

*

p < .05 (two-tailed).