Quantifying preference for social stimuli in young children using two tasks on a mobile platform.

ABSTRACT: Children typically prefer to attend to social stimuli (e.g. faces, smiles) over non-social stimuli (e.g. natural scene, household objects). This preference for social stimuli is believed to be an essential building block for later social skills and healthy social development. Preference for social stimuli are typically measured using either passive viewing or instrumental choice paradigms, but not both. Since these paradigms likely tap into different mechanisms, the current study addresses this gap by administering both of these paradigms on an overlapping sample. In this study, we use a preferential looking task and an instrumental choice task to measure preference for social stimuli in 3-9 year old typically developing children. Children spent longer looking at social stimuli in the pref

SUBMITTER: Dubey I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9159616 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature