ERIC Number: EJ1011128
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Publication Date: 2013
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Infant Attention to Dynamic Audiovisual Stimuli: Look Duration from 3 to 9 Months of Age
Reynolds, Greg D.; Zhang, Dantong; Guy, Maggie W.
Infancy, v18 n4 p554-577 Jul-Aug 2013
The goal of this study was to examine developmental change in visual attention to dynamic visual and audiovisual stimuli in 3-, 6-, and 9-month-old infants. Infant look duration was measured during exposure to dynamic geometric patterns and Sesame Street video clips under three different stimulus modality conditions: unimodal visual, synchronous audiovisual, and asynchronous audiovisual. Infants looked longer toward Sesame Street stimuli than geometric patterns, and infants also looked longer during multimodal audiovisual (synchronous and asynchronous) presentations than during unimodal visual presentations. There was a three-way interaction of age, stimulus type, and stimulus modality. Significant differences were found within and between age groups related to stimulus modality (visual or audiovisual) while viewing Sesame Street clips. No significant interaction was found between age and stimulus type while infants viewed dynamic geometric patterns. These findings indicate that patterns of developmental change in infant attention vary based on stimulus complexity and modality of presentation. (Contains 3 figures and 1 table.)
Descriptors: Infants, Attention, Auditory Stimuli, Visual Stimuli, Eye Movements, Age Differences, Child Development
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Language: English
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