ArticleChild development2019
How Infants' Arousal Influences Their Visual Search.
Article in Child development, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Infant Attention to Eyes Versus Mouth Varies With Mouth Movement Speed, Family History of Autism and Language Development.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Locus-Coeruleus Norepinephrine Functioning as a Predictor of Childhood Mental Health (LOCUS-MENTAL): Protocol for a Longitudinal Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Challenges in using pupil dilation responses to sounds as a reliable alternative to standard audiometric tests.Heliyon · 2025Article
- Manipulation of phasic arousal by auditory cues is associated with subsequent changes in visual orienting to faces in infancy.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Elevated and accelerated: Locus coeruleus activity and visual search abilities in autistic children.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2023Article
- Williams syndrome: reduced orienting to other's eyes in a hypersocial phenotype.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Increased pupil dilation to happy faces in children with hyperactive/impulsive symptoms of ADHD.Development and psychopathology · 2021Article
- Visual search under physical effort is faster but more vulnerable to distractor interference.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Article
- Working together to orient faster: The combined effects of alerting and orienting networks on pupillary responses at 8 months of age.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
The influence of arousal on visual attention was examined in 6.5-month-old infants (N = 42) in the context of a visual search task. Phasic increases in arousal were induced with brief sounds and measured with pupil dilation. Evidence was found for an inverted U-shaped relation between pupil dilation amplitude and visual orienting, with highest likelihood of a target fixation at intermediate levels of arousal. Effects were similar for facial stimuli and simple objects. Together, these results contribute to our understanding of the relation between arousal and attention in infancy. The study also demonstrates that infants have a bias to orient to human eyes, even when presented in isolation.
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