Caregiver Faces Capture 6- to 10-Year-Old Children's Attention during an Online Visual Search Task

Autor/inn/en	Hunter, Brianna K.; Markant, Julie
Titel	Caregiver Faces Capture 6- to 10-Year-Old Children's Attention during an Online Visual Search Task
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 59 (2023) 2, S.344-352 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
Schlagwörter	Child Caregivers; Caregiver Child Relationship; Young Children; Attention; Human Body; Foreign Countries; Error Patterns; Accuracy; Eye Movements; United States; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Frühe Kindheit; Aufmerksamkeit; Menschlicher Körper; Ausland; Fehlertyp; Augenbewegung; USA; Kanada
Abstract	Developing attention skills allow children to parse their complex world by orienting to a subset of especially salient or meaningful inputs. Infants and children are biased to orient to faces and have difficulty ignoring faces when they appear as distractors. Although these past findings suggest that faces are more salient than nonsocial stimuli, it is unclear whether specific types of faces capture attention to a greater extent than others. Caregiver faces are one of the most prevalent and socially motivating stimuli in infants' and children's environments, suggesting that they may be biased to orient to caregiver faces to a greater extent than faces in general. Forty-six 6- to 10-year-old children across the United States and Canada completed an online attention capture task in which participants searched for a target within arrays containing multiple distractors. During some trials, either a stranger or the child's caregiver's face appeared as one of the distractors. Children showed consistently poorer performance (i.e., increased omission errors, poorer accuracy, and slower response times) when the caregiver face appeared as a distractor, especially during trials in which the target was present and within larger search arrays. These increased performance costs indicate an enhanced orienting bias to caregiver faces, which may reflect increased motivational salience of these faces. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01