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Wang, Lamei; Hsiao, Janet H.; Chan, Antoni B.; Cheung, Jasmine; Hung, San; Au, Terry Kit-fong – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Early attention bias to threat-related negative emotions may lead children to overestimate dangers in social situations. This study examined its emergence and how it might develop in tandem with a known predictor namely temperamental shyness for toddlers' fear of strangers in 168 Chinese toddlers. Measurable individual differences in such…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Social Problems, Anxiety, Attention
Suarez-Rivera, Catalina; Smith, Linda B.; Yu, Chen – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Parents support and scaffold more mature behaviors in their infants. Recent research suggests that parent-infant joint visual attention may scaffold the development of sustained attention by extending the duration of an infant's attention to an object. The open question concerns the parent behaviors that occur within joint-attention episodes and…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Infants, Behavior, Attention
Eskola, Eeva; Kataja, Eeva-Leena; Pelto, Juho; Tuulari, Jetro J.; Hyönä, Jukka; Häikiö, Tuomo; Hessels, Roy S.; Holmberg, Eeva; Nordenswan, Elisabeth; Karlsson, Hasse; Karlsson, Linnea; Korja, Riikka – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The normative, developmental changes in affect-biased attention during the preschool years are largely unknown. To investigate the attention bias for emotional versus neutral faces, an eye-tracking measurement and free viewing of paired pictures of facial expressions (i.e., happy, fearful, sad, or angry faces) and nonface pictures with neutral…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Bias, Emotional Response
Astor, Kim; Lindskog, Marcus; Juvrud, Joshua; Wangchuk; Namgyel, Sangay Choden; Wangmo, Tshering; Tshering, Kinzang; Gredebäck, Gustaf – Developmental Psychology, 2022
We assessed whether the negative association between maternal postpartum depression (PPD) and infants' development of joint attention (gaze following) generalizes from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) to Majority World contexts. The study was conducted in Bhutan (N = 105, M = 278 days, 52% males) but also draws from…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Mothers, Infants, Attention
Vallorani, Alicia; Brown, Kayla M.; Fu, Xiaoxue; Gunther, Kelley E.; MacNeill, Leigha A.; Ermanni, Briana; Hallquist, Michael N.; Pérez-Edgar, Koraly – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Flexible social attention, including visually attending to social interaction partners, coupled with positive affect may facilitate adaptive social functioning. However, most research assessing social attention relies on static computer-based paradigms, overlooking the dynamics of social interactions and limiting understanding of individual…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Inhibition, Play
Bruce, Madeleine; Miyazaki, Yasuo; Bell, Martha Ann – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Receptive vocabulary development was examined in 313 children (151 girls; 78% White) as a function of infant attention and maternal education (66% of mothers held a college degree or higher). Attention was measured at 10 months using a dynamic puppet task and receptive vocabulary was measured at 3-, 4-, 6-, and 9 years of age using the Peabody…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, Infants, Attention
McQuillan, Maureen E.; Bates, John E.; Staples, Angela D.; Hoyniak, Caroline P.; Rudasill, Kathleen M.; Molfese, Victoria J. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The present study examined individual differences in the development of sustained attention across toddlerhood, as well as how these individual differences related to the development of language and sleep. Toddlers (N = 314; 54% male) were assessed at 30, 36, and 42 months using multiple measures of attention, a standardized language assessment,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Individual Differences, Attention Span, Age Differences
Blankenship, Tashauna L.; Strong, Roger W.; Kibbe, Melissa M. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Multifocal attention is the ability to simultaneously attend to multiple objects, and is critical for typical functioning. Although adults are able to use multifocal attention, little is known about the development of this ability. In two experiments, we investigated multifocal attention in 6-8-year-old children and adults using a child-friendly,…
Descriptors: Attention, Children, Adults, Child Development
Joan Birulés; Laura Bosch; David J. Lewkowicz; Ferran Pons – Developmental Psychology, 2024
We presented 28 Spanish monolingual and 28 Catalan-Spanish close-language bilingual 5-year-old children with a video of a talker speaking in the children's native language and a nonnative language and examined the temporal dynamics of their selective attention to the talker's eyes and mouth. When the talker spoke in the children's native language,…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Spanish, Romance Languages
Langley, Matthew D.; Van Houghton, Kaitlin; McBeath, Michael K.; Lucca, Kelsey – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Adults have a vertical attention bias (VAB) that directs their focus toward object tops and scene bottoms. This is consistent with focusing attention on the informative aspects and affordances of the environment, and generally favoring a downward gaze. The smaller size of children, combined with their relatively limited interactions with objects…
Descriptors: Attention, Bias, Young Children, Adults
Edgar, Elizabeth V.; Todd, James Torrence; Eschman, Bret; Hayes, Timothy; Bahrick, Lorraine E. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Recent research has demonstrated that individual differences in infant attention to faces and voices of women speaking predict language outcomes in childhood. These findings have been generated using two new audiovisual attention assessments appropriate for infants and young children, the Multisensory Attention Assessment Protocol (MAAP) and the…
Descriptors: English, Spanish, Infants, Attention
DeBolt, Michaela C.; Mitsven, Samantha G.; Pomaranski, Katherine I.; Cantrell, Lisa M.; Luck, Steven J.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
We tested 6- and 8-month-old White and non-White infants (N = 53 total, 28 girls) from Northern California in a visual search task to determine whether a unique item in an otherwise homogeneous display (a singleton) attracts attention because it is a unique singleton and "pops out" in a categorical manner, or whether attention instead…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Visual Stimuli, Attention Control, Whites
Larsen, Sally A.; Little, Callie W.; Coventry, William L. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Attention skills are strong cross-sectional predictors of reading comprehension from childhood through to adolescence. However, less is known about the developmental relations between these two domains across this period. This study examined the codevelopment of reading and attention in a community sample of 614 Australian school students (50%…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, High School Students, Middle School Students
Cowan, Nelson; AuBuchon, Angela M.; Gilchrist, Amanda L.; Blume, Christopher L.; Boone, Alexander P.; Saults, J. Scott – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Younger children have more difficulty in sharing attention between two concurrent tasks than do older participants, but in addition to this developmental change, we documented changes in the nature of attention sharing. We studied children 6-8 and 10-14 years old and college students (in all, 104 women and 76 men; 3% Hispanic, 3% Black or African…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Development, Children, Preadolescents
Vallorani, Alicia; Gunther, Kelley E.; Anaya, Berenice; Burris, Jessica L.; Field, Andy P.; LoBue, Vanessa; Buss, Kristin A.; Pérez-Edgar, Koraly – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Developmental theories suggest affect-biased attention, preferential attention to emotionally salient stimuli, emerges during infancy through coordinating individual differences. Here we examined bidirectional relations between infant affect-biased attention, temperamental negative affect, and maternal anxiety symptoms using a Random Intercepts…
Descriptors: Infants, Attention, Personality Traits, Affective Behavior