Endogenous Control and Reward-Based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces
Brianna Hunter,
Brooke Montgomery,
Aditi Sridhar
et al.
Abstract:Infants rely on developing attention skills to identify relevant stimuli in their environments. Although caregivers are socially rewarding and a critical source of information, they are also one of many stimuli that compete for infants’ attention. Young infants preferentially hold attention on caregiver faces, but it is unknown whether they also preferentially orient to caregivers and whether these attention biases reflect caregivers’ social reward value. To address these questions, we measured 4- to 10-month-… Show more
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