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Be there on time: spatial-temporal regularities guide young children’s attention in dynamic environments
- Abstract:
- Children's ability to benefit from spatiotemporal regularities to detect goal-relevant targets was tested in a dynamic, extended context. Young adults and children (from a low-deprivation area school in the UK; N=80; 5-6 years; 39 female; ethics approval did not permit individual-level race/ethnicity surveying) completed a dynamic visual-search task. Targets and distractors faded in and out of a display over seconds. Half of the targets appeared at predictable times and locations. Search performance in children was poorer overall. Nevertheless, they benefitted equivalently from spatiotemporal regularities, detecting more predictable than unpredictable targets. Children's benefits from predictions correlated positively with their attention. The study brings ecological validity to the study of attentional guidance in children, revealing striking behavioural benefits of dynamic experience-based predictions.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/cdev.13770
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Child Development More from this journal
- Volume:
- 93
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 1414-1426
- Publication date:
- 2022-04-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-02-28
- DOI:
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1467-8624
- ISSN:
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0009-3920
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English
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1243869
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pubs:1243869
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2022-03-14
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- Shalev et al
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- © 2022 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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