Early Development of Visual Attention: Change, Stability, and Longitudinal Associations

Visual attention and stability.

In the present review, we address the relationship between attention and visual stability. Even though with each eye, head and body movement the retinal image changes dramatically, we perceive the world as stable and are able to perform visually guided actions. However, visual stability is not as complete as introspection would lead us to believe. We attend to only a few items at a time and sta...

Longitudinal perspectives on midlife development: stability and change.

Visual Attention and Change Detection

Studies suggest that visual attention, guided in part by features’ visual salience, is necessary for change detection. An image processing algorithm was used for measuring the visual salience of the features of scenes, and participants’ ability to detect changes made to high and low salience features was measured with a flicker paradigm while their eye movements were recorded. Changes to high s...

The role of early visual attention in social development.

Faces convey important information about the social environment, and even very young infants are preferentially attentive to face-like over non-face stimuli. Eye-tracking studies have allowed researchers to examine which features of faces infants find most salient across development, and the present study examined scanning of familiar (i.e., mother) and unfamiliar (i.e., stranger) static faces ...

Early Phonological and Lexical Development of a Farsi Speaking Child: A Longitudinal Case Study

The present study aims at the description and analysis of the phonological and lexical development of a child who is acquiring Farsi as his first language. The child's language production at the holophrastic stage of language development, mainly single words, is observed and recorded  longitudinally for nearly seven  months since he was 16 months old until he turned 23 months. An attempt is mad...