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ArticleInfant and child development

Attentional Predictors of 5-month-olds' Performance on a Looking A-not-B Task.

Stuart Marcovitch, Melissa W Clearfield, Margaret Swingler, Susan D Calkins, Martha Ann Bell

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  1. Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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Stuart MarcovitchDepartment of Psychology, UNCG, Greensboro, NC, USA.
Melissa W ClearfieldDepartment of Psychology, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA.
Margaret SwinglerDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.
Susan D CalkinsDepartment of Psychology, UNCG, Greensboro, NC, USA; Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.
Martha Ann BellDepartment of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.

Funding

Psychobiology of Cognitive DevelopmentR01HD049878 · NICHD · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI BELL, MARTHA ANN · 2007 to 2017
$5.0M
Infant Temperament and Cognitive DevelopmentR03HD043057 · NICHD · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI BELL, MARTHA ANN · 2003 to 2004
$141k
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD049878NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD043057
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the first year of life, the ability to search for hidden objects is an indicator of object permanence and, when multiple locations are involved, executive function (i.e. inhibition, cognitive flexibility and working memory). The current study was designed to examine attentional predictors of search in 5-month-old infants (as measured by the looking A-not-B task), and whether levels of maternal education moderated the effect of the predictors. Specifically, in a separate task, the infants were shown a unique puppet, and we measured the percentage of time attending to the puppet, as well as the length of the longest look (i.e., peak fixation) directed towards the puppet. Across the entire sample (

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looking A-not-Blow maternal educationobject permanencepeak fixationsustained attention

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PMID27642263
PMCPMC5019558

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