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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Infant Vision

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  • Object-based attention is crucial for efficient real-world visual processing.
  • This attentional mechanism allows faster detection of targets on cued objects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the emergence of object-based attention in 6-8-month-old infants.
  • To differentiate object-based attention from spatial cueing effects in early development.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the preferential looking method with visual stimuli.
  • Presented infants with two side-by-side rectangles and cued locations.
  • Measured infants' first saccade (eye movement) to target stimuli.

Main Results:

  • All infants (6-8 months) responded to targets at cued locations.
  • Only 8-month-old infants demonstrated accurate saccades to targets at the opposite end of the cued object.
  • 8-month-olds outperformed younger infants in object-based target detection.

Conclusions:

  • Object-based attention appears to be acquired around 8 months of age.
  • Spatial cueing effects are evident earlier, around 6 months.
  • Objects influence visual attention in infants by 8 months old.