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Direct linkBrianna K. Hunter; John E. Kiat; Steven J. Luck; Lisa M. Oakes – Developmental Science, 2025
Visual attention develops rapidly across the first postnatal year, from reflexive eye movements driven by low-level stimulus properties to increasingly voluntary eye movements influenced by higher-order factors. To test the hypothesis that development reflects guidance by increasingly abstract features, we used representational similarity analysis…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Processes, Brain, Eye Movements
Maximilian Seitz; Manja Attig; Dave Möwisch; Markus Vogelbacher; Sabine Weinert – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2025
Studies on the emergence of effects of socioeconomic inequality typically report that socioeconomic background is positively associated with early cognitive abilities. However, studies on looking behaviour in habituation tasks rarely investigate this association, although such tasks are standard in measuring cognitive abilities in infants. The…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Socioeconomic Background, Habituation, Eye Movements
Ruthe Foushee; Mahesh Srinivasan; Fei Xu – Developmental Science, 2025
We introduce a novel method to test a classic idea in developmental science that children's attention to a stimulus is driven by how much they can learn from it. Preschoolers (4-6 years, M=4.6) watched a video where a distracting animation accompanied static, page-by-page illustrations of a storybook. The audio narration for each storybook page…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Attention, Listening, Eye Movements
Tess Allegra Forest; Layla Bradford; Lorna Ginnell; Maroussia Berger; Donna Herr; Emmie Mbale; Kavindya Dalawella; Chloë A. Jacobs; Chikondi Mchazime; Celia D'Amato; Zamazimba Madi; Pious Clifford Mkaka; Claudia Espinoza-Heredia; Tembeka Mhlakwaphalwa; Vukiwe Ngoma; Monique Gilmore; Marlie Miles; Jinge Ren; Nwabisa Mlandu; Reese Samuels; Michal R. Zieff; Melissa Gladstone; Kirsten A. Donald; Dima Amso – Child Development, 2025
Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather information for learning. Here, caregiver-infant dyads (N = 222, 2-6-months-old, all female caregivers; data collected 2022-2023) in South Africa and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Infants, Eye Movements
Catherine A. Bacos; Michael P. McCreery; Randall Boone – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2024
Recent findings from social attention research suggest direct engagement with others is a necessary condition for the social cognitive development of both autistic children and their typically developing peers. These findings come from studies that have used eye-tracking technology and paradigms for measuring social attention in naturalistic,…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Biofeedback, Attention, Social Science Research
Juvrud, Joshua; Haas, Sara A.; Lindskog, Marcus; Astor, Kim; Namgyel, Sangay C.; Wangmo, Tshering; Wangchuk; Dorjee, Sithar; Tshering, Kinzang P.; Gredebäck, Gustaf – Developmental Science, 2022
Poor maternal mental health negatively impacts cognitive development from infancy to childhood, affecting both behavior and brain architecture. In a non-western context (Thimphu, Bhutan), we demonstrate that culturally-moderated factors such as family, community social support, and enrichment may buffer and scaffold the development of infant…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Infants, Cognitive Development, Mothers
Liu, Yan; Odic, Darko; Tang, Xuyan; Ma, Andy; Laricheva, Maria; Chen, Guanyu; Wu, Sirui; Niu, Man; Guo, Yue; Milner-Bolotin, Marina – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2023
The emerging field of robotics education (RE) is a new and rapidly growing subject area worldwide. It may provide a playful and novel learning environment for children to engage with all aspects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning. The purpose of this research is to examine how robotics learning activities may…
Descriptors: Robotics, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Young Children
Zheng, Annie; Church, Jessica A. – Child Development, 2021
Children perform worse than adults on tests of cognitive flexibility, which is a component of executive function. To assess what aspects of a cognitive flexibility task (cued switching) children have difficulty with, investigators tested where eye gaze diverged over age. Eye-tracking was used as a proxy for attention during the preparatory period…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Executive Function, Cognitive Tests, Cognitive Development
Pedrett, Salome; Kaspar, Lea; Frick, Andrea – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Toddlers' understanding of object rotation was investigated using a multimethod approach. Participants were 44 toddlers between 22 and 38 months of age. In an eye-tracking task, they observed a shape that rotated and disappeared briefly behind an occluder. In an object-fitting task, they rotated wooden blocks and fit them through apertures.…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Eye Movements, Age Differences, Object Manipulation
Ferry, Alissa; Nespor, Marina; Mehler, Jacques – Developmental Psychology, 2020
To learn a language infants must learn to link arbitrary sounds to their meaning. While words are the clearest example of this link, they are not the only component of language; morphological regularities (e.g., the plural -s suffix in English) carry meaning as well. Comprehensive theories of language acquisition must account for how infants build…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Language, Comprehension, Morphology (Languages)
Blau, Shane Reuven – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Infants are born highly sensitive to the natural patterns found in languages. They use their perceptual sensitivity to acquire detailed information about the structure of languages in their environment. To date, most studies of infant perception and early language acquisition have investigated spoken/auditory languages and hearing infants (e.g.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Linguistic Input, Language Patterns, Infants
Lyons, Ashley B.; Cheries, Erik W. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2017
Adults automatically infer a person's social disposition and future behavior based on the many properties they observe about how they look and sound. The goal of the current study is to explore the developmental origins of this bias. We tested whether 12-month-old infants automatically infer a character's social disposition (e.g., whether they are…
Descriptors: Inferences, Personality, Infants, Bias
San Juan, Valerie; Lin, Carol; Mackenzie, Heather; Curtin, Suzanne; Graham, Susan A. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
We examined if and when English-learning 17-month-olds would accommodate Japanese forms as labels for novel objects. In Experiment 1, infants (n = 22) who were habituated to Japanese word-object pairs looked longer at switched test pairs than familiar test pairs, suggesting that they had mapped Japanese word forms to objects. In Experiments 2 (n =…
Descriptors: Infants, Japanese, English, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Cook, Susan Wagner; Friedman, Howard S.; Duggan, Katherine A.; Cui, Jian; Popescu, Voicu – Cognitive Science, 2017
A beneficial effect of gesture on learning has been demonstrated in multiple domains, including mathematics, science, and foreign language vocabulary. However, because gesture is known to co-vary with other non-verbal behaviors, including eye gaze and prosody along with face, lip, and body movements, it is possible the beneficial effect of gesture…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Mathematics Instruction, Animation, Eye Movements
Schuwerk, Tobias; Sodian, Beate; Paulus, Markus – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
Recent research suggests that impaired action prediction is at the core of social interaction deficits in autism spectrum condition (ASC). Here, we targeted two cognitive mechanisms that are thought to underlie the prediction of others' actions: statistical learning and efficiency considerations. We measured proactive eye movements of 10-year-old…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism
