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Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

Volume 1, 2019

Early Development of Visual Attention: Change, Stability, and Longitudinal Associations

Abstract

Visual attention is a basic mechanism of information gathering and environment selection and consequently plays a fundamental role in influencing developmental trajectories. Here, we highlight evidence for predictive associations from early visual attention to emotion regulation, executive function, language and broader cognitive ability, mathematics and literacy skills, and neurodevelopmental conditions. Development of visual attention is also multifaceted and nonlinear. In daily life, core functions such as orienting, selective filtering, and processing of visual inputs are intertwined and influenced by many other cognitive components. Furthermore, the demands of an attention task vary according to the experience, motivation, and cognitive and physical constraints of participants, while the mechanisms underlying performance may change with development. Thus, markers of attention may need to be interpreted differently across development and between populations. We summarize research that has combined multiple measurements and techniques to further our understanding of visual attention development and highlight possibilities for the future.

Keyword(s): development, focused attention, infant, orienting, selective attention, visual attention
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Early Development of Visual Attention: Change, Stability, and Longitudinal Associations
Annual Review of Developmental Psychology 1, 251 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121318-085114
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