Executive attention and self-regulation in infancy
Executive attention and self-regulation in infancy
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DOI：
10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.02.001
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发表时间：
2008-09-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Fraundorf, Scott H.
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作者：
Sheese, Brad E.;Rothbart, Mary K.;Fraundorf, Scott H.
本研究通过研究婴儿期顺序注视与其他预测后期自我调节行为之间的关系，探讨婴儿期早期执行性注意。执行注意力发展的一个早期标志是预期性注视，即在目标出现在该位置之前注视该位置的行为，这一过程涉及视觉定向的内源性控制。先前的研究表明，预期注视与执行注意正相关，其评估的是3-4岁儿童解决空间冲突的能力。在目前的研究中，预期的期待正相关的谨慎的行为方法，在6个月和7个月大的婴儿在回应非威胁性的新物体。这一发现和以前的研究结果表明，错误检测在婴儿期的存在是一致的假设，有声音程度的执行注意力在生命的第一年。预期性注视还与痛苦的频率、远离干扰性刺激以及声音自我调节行为有关。这些结果可能表明早期注意情绪调节或早期发展的恐惧和后来的自我调节之间的密切关系。总体而言，结果表明婴儿存在执行注意力的初级系统，并支持进一步研究使用预期注视作为婴儿期注意力个体差异的衡量标准。(c)2008年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
This study investigates early executive attention in infancy by studying the relations between infant sequential looking and other behaviors predictive of later self-regulation. One early marker of executive attention development is anticipatory looking, the act of looking to the location of a target prior to its appearance in that location, a process that involves endogenous control of visual orienting. Previous studies have shown that anticipatory looking is positively related to executive attention its assessed by the ability to resolve spatial conflict in 3-4-year-old children. In the current study, anticipatory looking was positively related to cautious behavioral approach in response to non-threatening novel objects in 6- and 7-month-old infants. This finding and previous findings showing the presence of error detection in infancy are consistent with the hypothesis that there is sonic degree of executive attention in the first year of life. Anticipatory looking was also related to the frequency of distress, to looking away from disturbing stimuli, and to sonic self-regulatory behaviors. These results may indicate either early attentional regulation of emotion or close relations between early developing fear and later self-regulation. Overall, the results suggest the presence of rudimentary systems of executive attention in infants and Support further studies using anticipatory looking as a measure of individual differences in attention in infancy. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.