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Direct linkBlaga, Otilia M.; Colombo, John – Developmental Psychology, 2006
Young infants have repeatedly been shown to be slower than older infants to shift fixation from a midline stimulus to a peripheral stimulus. This is generally thought to reflect maturation of the neural substrates that mediate the disengagement of attention, but this developmental difference may also be attributable to young infants' slower…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Infants, Attention Control, Dimensional Preference
