Infants' anticipatory eye movements: feature-based attention guides infants' visual attention

被引：0

作者：

Tsurumi, Shuma ^{[1
,2
,4
]}

Kanazawa, So ^{[3
]}

Yamaguchi, Masami K. ^{[1
]}

Kawahara, Jun-ichiro ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Chuo Univ, Dept Psychol, 742-1 Higashi Nakano, Hachioji, Tokyo 1920393, Japan

[2] Japan Soc Promot Sci, Chiyoda Ku, 5-3-1 Kojimachi, Tokyo 1020083, Japan

[3] Japan Womens Univ, Dept Psychol, Bunkyo Ku, 2-8-1 Mejirodai, Tokyo 1128681, Japan

[4] Hokkaido Univ, Dept Psychol, N10 W7, Sapporo, Hokkaido 0600810, Japan

来源：

EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH | 2022年 / 240卷 / 09期

关键词：

Feature-based attention; Infant; Anticipation; Top-down; Endogenous attention; COLOR; CONSTANCY; INDIVIDUATION; EXPECTATIONS; PATTERN; VISION; SEARCH; SIZE;

D O I：

10.1007/s00221-022-06428-1

中图分类号：

Q189 [神经科学];

学科分类号：

071006 ;

摘要：

When looking for an object, we identify it by selectively focusing our attention to a specific feature, known as feature-based attention. This basic attentional system has been reported in young children; however, little is known of whether infants could use feature-based attention. We have introduced a newly developed anticipation-looking task, where infants learned to direct their attention endogenously to a specific feature based on the learned feature (color or orientation), in 60 preverbal infants aged 7-8 months. We found that preverbal infants aged 7-8 months can direct their attention endogenously to the specific target feature among irrelevant features, thus showing the feature-based attentional selection. Experiment 2 bolstered this finding by demonstrating that infants directed their attention depending on the familiarized feature that belongs to a never-experienced object. These results that infants can form anticipation by color and orientation reflect they could drive their attention through feature-based selection.

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页码：2277 / 2284

页数：8