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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Human Infant Studies

Background:

  • Working memory is crucial for cognitive processes like learning and reasoning.
  • Cognitive effort, particularly attention, significantly impacts working memory performance.
  • Measuring cognitive effort in infants is challenging as it cannot be assumed.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce pupillometry as a physiological measure of cognitive effort in infants.
  • To investigate the influence of cognitive effort on infant visual working memory encoding.
  • To explore the relationship between attentive states and cognitive abilities in infants.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized pupillometry to record pupil dilation as a proxy for cognitive effort.
  • Measured trial-by-trial fluctuations in cognitive effort during a visual working memory task.
  • Analyzed the correlation between effort levels and information encoding in infants.

Main Results:

  • Pupillometry successfully provided a physiological measure of cognitive effort in infants.
  • Infant cognitive effort, measured via pupil dilation, significantly influenced visual working memory encoding.
  • Findings align with adult cognitive research, showing effort's role in memory performance.

Conclusions:

  • Pupillometry offers a viable method for assessing cognitive effort in infant research.
  • Cognitive effort plays a critical role in the development of infant working memory.
  • Further research using physiological measures like pupil dilation is encouraged to understand infant cognition and attention.