The Social Origins of Sustained Attention in One-Year-Old Human Infants.

ABSTRACT: The ability to sustain attention is a major achievement in human development and is generally believed to be the developmental product of increasing self-regulatory and endogenous (i.e., internal, top-down, voluntary) control over one's attention and cognitive systems [1-5]. Because sustained attention in late infancy is predictive of future development, and because early deficits in sustained attention are markers for later diagnoses of attentional disorders [6], sustained attention is often viewed as a constitutional and individual property of the infant [6-9]. However, humans are social animals; developmental pathways for seemingly non-social competencies evolved within the social group and therefore may be dependent on social experience [10-13]. Here, we show that social context matter

SUBMITTER: Yu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5387765 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature