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ERIC Number: EJ929603
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-May
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1363-755X
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Exogenous Attention Influences Visual Short-Term Memory in Infants
Ross-Sheehy, Shannon; Oakes, Lisa M.; Luck, Steven J.
Developmental Science, v14 n3 p490-501 May 2011
Two experiments examined the hypothesis that developing visual attentional mechanisms influence infants' Visual Short-Term Memory (VSTM) in the context of multiple items. Five- and 10-month-old infants (N = 76) received a change detection task in which arrays of three differently colored squares appeared and disappeared. On each trial one square changed color and one square was cued; sometimes the cued item was the changing item, and sometimes the changing item was not the cued item. Ten-month-old infants exhibited enhanced memory for the cued item when the cue was a spatial pre-cue (Experiment 1) and 5-month-old infants exhibited enhanced memory for the cued item when the cue was relative motion (Experiment 2). These results demonstrate for the first time that infants younger than 6 months can encode information in VSTM about individual items in multiple-object arrays, and that attention-directing cues influence both perceptual and VSTM encoding of stimuli in infants as in adults.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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