The Development of Attention to Objects and Scenes: From Object‐Biased to Unbiased

Selective attention is the ability to focus on goal‐relevant information while filtering out irrelevant information. This work examined the development of selective attention to natural scenes and objects with a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm. Children (N = 69, ages 4–6 years) and adults...

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Veröffentlicht in:Child development 2021-05, Vol.92 (3), p.1173-1186
Hauptverfasser: Darby, Kevin P., Deng, Sophia W., Walther, Dirk B., Sloutsky, Vladimir M.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Selective attention is the ability to focus on goal‐relevant information while filtering out irrelevant information. This work examined the development of selective attention to natural scenes and objects with a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm. Children (N = 69, ages 4–6 years) and adults (N = 80) were asked to attend to either objects or scenes, while ignoring the other type of stimulus. A multinomial processing tree model was used to decompose selective attention into focusing and filtering components. The results suggest that attention is object‐biased in children, due to difficulty filtering attention to goal‐irrelevant objects, whereas attention in adults is relatively unbiased. The findings suggest important developmental asymmetries in selective attention to scenes and objects.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/cdev.13469