Bornstein et al. habituated a four-month-old infants to a 510 nm ("green") stimulus, then presented a 480nm ("blue") stimulus or a 540nm ("green") stimulus. The infants in this study dishabituated to _____

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The infants in this study were habituated to a 510 nm ("green") stimulus, which means they became desensitized to it and stopped responding to it. When presented with a new stimulus, either a 480 nm ("blue") or a 540 nm ("green") stimulus, the infants showed a heightened response to the 480 nm stimulus, indicating that they had discriminated it from the previous habituated stimulus. There was no significant response to the 540 nm stimulus, indicating that the infants did not discriminate it from the habituated stimulus. Therefore, the infants in this study dishabituated only to the 480 nm stimulus.

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