The emergence of object-based visual attention in infancy: A role for family socioeconomic status and competing visual features.


Journal

Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
ISSN: 1532-7078
Titre abrégé: Infancy
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 100890607

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Sep 2019
Historique:
received: 05 06 2018
revised: 14 06 2019
accepted: 20 06 2019
entrez: 18 7 2020
pubmed: 18 7 2020
medline: 18 7 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The development of spatial visual attention has been extensively studied in infants, but far less is known about the emergence of object-based visual attention. We tested 3-5- and 9-12-month-old infants on a task that allowed us to measure infants' attention orienting bias toward whole objects when they competed with color, motion, and orientation feature information. Infants' attention orienting to whole objects was affected by the dimension of the competing visual feature. Whether attention was biased toward the whole object or its salient competing feature (e.g., "ball" or "red") changed with age for the color feature, with infants biased toward whole objects with age. Moreover, family socioeconomic status predicted feature-based attention in the youngest infants and object-based attention in the older infants when color feature information competed with whole-object information.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32677277
doi: 10.1111/infa.12309
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

752-767

Subventions

Organisme : James S. McDonnell Foundation
Organisme : National Science Foundation

Informations de copyright

© International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS).

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Auteurs

Denise M Werchan (DM)

Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Andrew Lynn (A)

Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Natasha Z Kirkham (NZ)

Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK.

Dima Amso (D)

Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

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