Top-down knowledge rapidly acquired through abstract rule learning biases subsequent visual attention in 9-month-old infants.
Feature-Based attention
Infants
Learning
PFC
Rule learning
Visual attention
Journal
Developmental cognitive neuroscience
ISSN: 1878-9307
Titre abrégé: Dev Cogn Neurosci
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101541838
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2020
04 2020
Historique:
received:
16
05
2019
revised:
11
01
2020
accepted:
18
01
2020
pubmed:
20
2
2020
medline:
7
10
2020
entrez:
20
2
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Visual attention is an information-gathering mechanism that supports the emergence of complex perceptual and cognitive capacities. Yet, little is known about how the infant brain learns to direct attention to information that is most relevant for learning and behavior. Here we address this gap by examining whether learning a hierarchical rule structure, where there is a higher-order feature that organizes visual inputs into predictable sequences, subsequently biases 9-month-old infants' visual attention to the higher-order visual feature. In Experiment 1, we found that individual differences in infants' ability to structure simple visual inputs into generalizable rules was related to the change in infants' attention biases towards higher-order features. In Experiment 2, we found that increased functional connectivity between the PFC and visual cortex was related to the efficacy of rule learning. Moreover, Granger causality analyses provided exploratory evidence that increased functional connectivity reflected PFC influence over visual cortex. These findings provide new insights into how the infant brain learns to flexibly select features from the cluttered visual world that were previously relevant for learning and behavior.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32072934
pii: S1878-9293(20)30009-8
doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100761
pmc: PMC7242661
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
100761Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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