Infants' anticipatory eye movements: feature-based attention guides infants' visual attention.

Shuma Tsurumi, So Kanazawa, Masami K Yamaguchi, Jun-Ichiro Kawahara

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Shuma TsurumiDepartment of Psychology, Chuo University, 742-1 Higashi-Nakano, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0393, Japan. stsurumi@let.hokudai.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7755-1973

So KanazawaDepartment of Psychology, Japan Women's University, 2-8-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8681, Japan.

Masami K YamaguchiDepartment of Psychology, Chuo University, 742-1 Higashi-Nakano, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0393, Japan.

Jun-Ichiro KawaharaDepartment of Psychology, Hokkaido University, N10 W7, Kita, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0810, Japan.

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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 19H01774Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 19J21422Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan 17H06343

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Abstract

When looking for an object, we identify it by selectively focusing our attention to a specific feature, known as feature-based attention. This basic attentional system has been reported in young children; however, little is known of whether infants could use feature-based attention. We have introduced a newly developed anticipation-looking task, where infants learned to direct their attention endogenously to a specific feature based on the learned feature (color or orientation), in 60 preverbal infants aged 7-8 months. We found that preverbal infants aged 7-8 months can direct their attention endogenously to the specific target feature among irrelevant features, thus showing the feature-based attentional selection. Experiment 2 bolstered this finding by demonstrating that infants directed their attention depending on the familiarized feature that belongs to a never-experienced object. These results that infants can form anticipation by color and orientation reflect they could drive their attention through feature-based selection.

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Eye MovementsChildChild, PreschoolHumansInfantAnticipationEndogenous attentionFeature-based attentionInfantTop–down

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PMID35906428

DOI10.1007/s00221-022-06428-1

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