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    How infants arousal influences their visual search

    Kleberg, J.L. and Del Bianco, Teresa and Falck-Ytter, T. (2019) How infants arousal influences their visual search. Child Development 90 (4), pp. 1413-1423. ISSN 0009-3920.

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    Abstract

    The influence of arousal on visual attention was examined in 6.5‐month‐old infants (N = 42) in the context of a visual search task. Phasic increases in arousal were induced with brief sounds and measured with pupil dilation. Evidence was found for an inverted U‐shaped relation between pupil dilation amplitude and visual orienting, with highest likelihood of a target fixation at intermediate levels of arousal. Effects were similar for facial stimuli and simple objects. Together, these results contribute to our understanding of the relation between arousal and attention in infancy. The study also demonstrates that infants have a bias to orient to human eyes, even when presented in isolation.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health, Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    SWORD Depositor: Mr Joe Tenant
    Depositing User: Mr Joe Tenant
    Date Deposited: 28 Jan 2019 09:46
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:47
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25785

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