Be There on Time: Spatial-Temporal Regularities Guide Young Children's Attention in Dynamic Environments

Autor/inn/en	Shalev, Nir; Boettcher, Sage; Wilkinson, Hannah; Scerif, Gaia; Nobre, Anna C.
Titel	Be There on Time: Spatial-Temporal Regularities Guide Young Children's Attention in Dynamic Environments
Quelle	In: Child Development, 93 (2022) 5, S.1414-1426 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Shalev, Nir) ORCID (Boettcher, Sage) ORCID (Scerif, Gaia) ORCID (Nobre, Anna C.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13770
Schlagwörter	Time Perspective; Young Children; Attention; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zeitbezug; Frühe Kindheit; Aufmerksamkeit; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Children's ability to benefit from spatiotemporal regularities to detect goal-relevant targets was tested in a dynamic, extended context. Young adults and children (from a low-deprivation area school in the United Kingdom; N = 80; 5-6 years; 39 female; ethics approval did not permit individual-level race/ethnicity surveying) completed a dynamic visual-search task. Targets and distractors faded in and out of a display over seconds. Half of the targets appeared at predictable times and locations. Search performance in children was poorer overall. Nevertheless, they benefitted equivalently from spatiotemporal regularities, detecting more predictable than unpredictable targets. Children's benefits from predictions correlated positively with their attention. The study brings ecological validity to the study of attentional guidance in children, revealing striking behavioral benefits of dynamic experience-based predictions. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01