Cited by 673Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentVisual Attention and Saliency DetectionVisual perception and processing mechanisms

The Development of Visual Attention in Infancy

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Colombo, John·2001·Annual Review of Psychology

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▪ Abstract Over the past decade, the study of attention in infancy has seen dramatic progress. This review delineates four attentional functions (alertness, spatial orienting, attention to object features, and endogenous attention) that are relevant to infancy and uses these functions as a framework for summarizing the developmental course of attention in infancy. Rudimentary forms of various attentional functions are present at birth, but each of the functions exhibits different and apparently dissociable periods of postnatal change during the first years of life. The role of attention in development should therefore be considered in the context of interaction among different systems at different levels of maturity during the first years of life.

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Authors
Colombo, J.
Affiliations
University of Kansas (US)
Corresponding author
Colombo, John
Venue
Annual Review of Psychology
Published
2001-02
Volume
52
Issue
1
Pages
337-367
ISSN
  • 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2085
OpenAlex
W2127120487
Cited by
673
References
240
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
other-oa
Locations
  • Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • KU ScholarWorks (University of Kansas) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD35903, R01HD035903)
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
visual attention, infancy, attention development, alertness, spatial orienting, top-down attention, postnatal development, attentional networks
MeSH terms
Arousal, Attention, Brain Stem, Child Development, Psychology, Child, Humans, Infant, Saccades, Spatial Behavior, Visual Perception

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