Different patterns of sensitivity differentially affect infant attention span.

We exposed infants to different types of sensitive behavior to examine effects on infants' attention. Results revealed infants changed their patterns of visual attention; infants had longer durations of sustained attention to toys, shorter durations to the social partner, and fewer attention shifts when interacting with a nonvocal social partner than when interacting with a vocal social partner.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Infant Behavior and Development

• Publication date

  2018-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.10.001PMID 30339982
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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