A developmental neuroscience perspective on affect-biased attention

Highlights • We place affect-biased attention within a developmental neuroscience framework.• We suggest that affect-biased attention serves as a domain general mechanism.• Affect-biased attention broadly shapes socioemotional trajectories across development.• We review the developmental neurocognitive mechanisms of affect-biased attention.• A proposed model helps place affect-biased attention in a developmental context.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2016-08-28

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.dcn.2016.08.001PMID 27606972PMCID 5067218
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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