The development of attention to simple and complex visual stimuli in infants: Behavioral and psychophysiological measures
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The study of visual attention in infants has used presentation of single simple stimuli, multi-dimensional stimuli, and complex dynamic video presentations. There are both continuities and discontinuities in the findings on attention and attentiveness to stimulus complexity. A continuity is a pattern of looking that is found in the early part of infancy that remains throughout adulthood. A discontinuity is an emerging sensitivity to the content of the information in the stimulus presentations and alterations in patterns of attention based upon stimulus comprehensibility. The current paper reviews some of these findings with particular application to complex video presentations.
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Several studies show that while look durations to simple stimuli typically decrease, look durations to more complex dynamic stimuli increase across the first year.
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- Authors
- Richards, J. E.
- Affiliations
- University of South Carolina (US)
- Corresponding author
- Richards, John E.
- ORCID
- Richards, John E.
- Venue
- Developmental Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-06
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 203-219
- ISSN
- 0273-2297 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2879590
- OpenAlex
- W2108289092
- Cited by
- 133
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 38 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 7.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Developmental Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R37-HD18942)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- infant visual attention, stimulus complexity, dynamic stimuli, psychophysiological measures, early infancy
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