Visual attention is a basic mechanism of information gathering and environment selection
and consequently plays a fundamental role in influencing developmental trajectories. Here …

Highlights•Multiple distributed neural networks support selective sustained
attention.•Selective sustained attention is a developmental foundation for executive …

To study the central role of selective attention in the early development of executive
functions (EFs), longitudinal relationships between selective attention, working memory, and …

Social interactions provide a crucial context for early learning and cognitive development
during infancy. Action prediction—the ability to anticipate an observed action—facilitates …

The visual context in which an object or face resides can provide useful top‐down
information for guiding attention orienting, object recognition, and visual search. Although …

Visual attention is an information-gathering mechanism that supports the emergence of
complex perceptual and cognitive capacities. Yet, little is known about how the infant brain …

Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with numerous aspects of cognitive
development and disparities in academic achievement. The specific environmental factors …

We examined the role of community face experience on 6‐and 8‐month‐old Caucasian
infants' scanning of own‐and other‐race face scanning. We measured infants' proportional …

Efficient selective attention is critical for engaging in task-oriented behavior but may also
limit our processing of potentially meaningful, task-irrelevant details. Both older adults and …

The development of spatial visual attention has been extensively studied in infants, but far
less is known about the emergence of object‐based visual attention. We tested 3–5‐and 9 …