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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
Olivers, Christian N. L.; Watson, Derrick G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
The attentional blink refers to the finding that the 2nd of 2 targets embedded in a stream of rapidly presented distractors is often missed. Whereas most theories of the attentional blink focus on limited-capacity processes that occur after target selection, the present work investigates the selection process itself. Identifying a target letter…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Inhibition, Eye Movements, Visual Stimuli
