Reider LB, Bierstedt L, Burris JL, Vallorani A, Gunther K, Buss KA, Pérez‐Edgar K, Field AP, LoBue V. Developmental patterns of affective attention across the first 2 years of life.
Child Dev 2022;
93:e607-e621. [PMID:
35904130 PMCID:
PMC9796239 DOI:
10.1111/cdev.13831]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2022] [Revised: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 07/04/2022] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
This study examined patterns of attention toward affective stimuli in a longitudinal sample of typically developing infants (N = 357, 147 females, 50% White, 22% Latinx, 16% African American/Black, 3% Asian, 8% mixed race, 1% not reported) using two eye-tracking tasks that measure vigilance to (rapid detection), engagement with (total looking toward), and disengagement from (latency to looking away) emotional facial configurations. Infants completed each task at 4, 8, 12, 18, and 24 months of age from 2016 to 2020. Multilevel growth models demonstrate that, over the first 2 years of life, infants became faster at detecting and spent more time engaging with angry over neutral faces. These results have implications for our understanding of the development of affect-biased attention.
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