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Romero, Victoria. and Moore, David. "Attention Control in Early Infancy: 2-, 3-, and 4-Month-Olds' Ability to Inhibit Visual Attention" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Westin Miyako, Kyoto, Japan, Jun 19, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p94320_index.html>

Romero, V. L. and Moore, D. , 2006-06-19 "Attention Control in Early Infancy: 2-, 3-, and 4-Month-Olds' Ability to Inhibit Visual Attention" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Westin Miyako, Kyoto, Japan <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p94320_index.html

Publication Type: Individual Poster Abstract: Background and Aims: Johnson’s (1990; 1998) hierarchical model of visual attention suggests that infants should be able to suppress exogenously elicited saccades as early as 3.5 months, but no data suggest this is true. We attempted to condition young infants to maintain fixation to a somewhat unattractive stimulus, which required suppressing saccades to a more attractive stimulus. Methods: Sixty 2-, 3-, and 4-month-olds were individually placed in front of two computer monitors. Infants in the experimental condition were presented with a moderately unattractive stimulus (a red ball) on one screen. After the infant fixated this stimulus for 1s, a more attractive stimulus (a spinning, bouncing, flashing gear) was shown on the other screen. Both stimuli remained present for an additional 10 s. These infants were reinforced for looking at the less attractive stimulus by being presented with a 10 s cartoon clip after trials in which they fixated the less attractive stimulus for at least 5 s (cumulatively). Infants in the control condition saw the more attractive stimulus presented first, and they were reinforced for looking at the more attractive stimulus; otherwise, experimental and control conditions were identical. The amount of time spent looking at the less attractive stimulus was measured in both conditions. Key Results: An ANOVA yielded a significant age X condition interaction (p<.05). A priori focused contrasts revealed that 3- and 4-month-olds in the experimental condition spent more time looking at the less attractive stimulus (3-month-olds M = 4.4, 4-month-olds M = 5.9) than did the 3- and 4-month-olds in the control condition (3-month-olds M = 3.8, 4-month-olds M = 2.5); this difference was not evident for 2-month-olds (experimental M = 5.4, control M = 5.9). Conclusions: Two-month-olds spent little time looking at the less attractive stimulus regardless of whether they were reinforced for doing so. However, 3- and 4-month-old infants spent more time looking at the less attractive stimulus when they were rewarded for doing so than when they were not. It appears that these older infants were successfully conditioned to inhibit overt visual attention to competing stimuli (i.e., the more attractive stimulus). This existence of endogenous inhibitory control of visual attention in 3- and 4-month-olds is consistent with research demonstrating endogenous saccades as early as 2 months (i.e. Wentworth & Haith, 1998) and antisaccades as early as 4 months (Johnson, 1995). These results support Johnson’s (1990; 1998) hierarchical model of visual attention development.

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