Visual attention functions as a filter to select environmental information for learning and
memory, making it the first step in the eventual cascade of thought and action systems. Here …

Understanding how we come to make sense of our environments requires understanding
both how we take in new information and how we flexibly process and store that information …

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 …

We examined the impact of simultaneous bottom-up visual influences and meaningful social
stimuli on attention orienting in young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) …

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 …

Face-processing abilities are biased such that some faces are differentiated, recognized,
and identified more readily than others. Across the first year of life, experience with faces …

Visual attention develops rapidly and significantly during the first postnatal years. At birth,
infants have poor visual acuity, poor head and neck control, and as a result have little …

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 …

This study used measures of event-related potentials (ERPs) and cortical source analysis to
examine the effect of covert orienting and sustained attention on 3-and 4.5-month-old …