Individual Differences in Infant Oculomotor Behavior During the Viewing of Complex Naturalistic Scenes.

ABSTRACT: Little research hitherto has examined how individual differences in attention, as assessed using standard experimental paradigms, relate to individual differences in how attention is spontaneously allocated in more naturalistic contexts. Here, we analyzed the time intervals between refoveating eye movements (fixation durations) while typically developing 11-month-old infants viewed a 90-min battery ranging from complex dynamic to noncomplex static materials. The same infants also completed experimental assessments of cognitive control, psychomotor reaction times (RT), processing speed (indexed via peak look during habituation), and arousal (indexed via tonic pupil size). High test-retest reliability was found for fixation duration, across testing sessions and across types of viewing materi

SUBMITTER: Wass SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4286103 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature