Training Basic Visual Attention Leads to Changes in Responsiveness to Social-Communicative Cues in 9-Month-Olds
| Autor: | Sam V. Wass, Linda Forssman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Transfer Psychology education Interpersonal communication Education Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Interpersonal relationship 0302 clinical medicine Child Development Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention Interpersonal Relations Cognitive skill 05 social sciences Attentional control Infant Cognition Child development Transfer of training Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Task analysis Female Cues Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology Cognitive psychology Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Child development. 89(3) |
| ISSN: | 1467-8624 |
| Popis: | The current study investigated transfer effects of gaze-interactive attention training to more complex social and cognitive skills in infancy. Seventy 9-month-olds were assigned to a training group (n = 35) or an active control group (n =35). Before, after, and at 6-week follow-up both groups completed an assessment battery assessing transfer to non-trained aspects of attention control, including table-top tasks assessing social attention in semi-naturalistic contexts. Transfer effects were found on non-trained screen-based tasks, but importantly also on a structured observation task assessing the infants’ likelihood to respond to an adult’s social communication cues. The results causally link basic attention skills and more complex social communicative skills, and provide a principle for studying causal mechanisms of early development. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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