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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kwon MK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4808329 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Developmental psychology 20160211 4
Four experiments examined how faces compete with physically salient stimuli for the control of attention in 4-, 6-, and 8-month-old infants (N = 117 total). Three computational models were used to quantify physical salience. We presented infants with visual search arrays containing a face and familiar object(s), such as shoes and flowers. Six- and 8-month-old infants looked first and longest at faces; their looking was not strongly influenced by physical salience. In contrast, 4-month-old infant ...[more]