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Area of Science:

  • Developmental psychology
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Neuroscience

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  • Visual attention develops significantly in infancy and early childhood, co-developing with executive functions.
  • A gap exists in understanding the link between early infant attention measures and later toddler attention, particularly concerning executive functioning.
  • Existing research lacks integrated neural and behavioral data connecting early attention foundations with later cognitive skills.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the associations between infant oculomotor attention skills and toddler manual response attention.
  • To explore the neural and behavioral links between different measures of attention in early childhood.
  • To examine how distinct attention tasks relate to executive functioning development in toddlers.

Main Methods:

  • Administered the infant orienting with attention (IOWA) oculomotor task and a manual response Flanker task to 2.5- and 3.5-year-old toddlers.
  • Collected simultaneous neural recordings using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), eye-tracking data, and behavioral responses.
  • Analyzed associations between behavioral performance on both tasks and neural activation patterns.

Main Results:

  • Oculomotor facilitation in the IOWA task negatively correlated with accuracy on neutral Flanker task trials.
  • Conflict scores between the IOWA and Flanker tasks showed a positive association.
  • Distinct neural activation patterns were observed: left frontal cortex for the Flanker task and right frontal/parietal cortex for the IOWA task.
  • IOWA task activation varied with oculomotor control: stimulus-reactive children showed more parietal activation, while controlled-behavior children showed more frontal activation.

Conclusions:

  • Behavioral measures of attention show significant associations between oculomotor and manual response tasks in toddlers.
  • Neural underpinnings of attention differ between oculomotor and manual tasks, highlighting distinct developmental trajectories.
  • Understanding these distinct neural and behavioral patterns is crucial for bridging the gap between early attention and later executive functioning development.