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Peer reviewedRichards, John E.; Cronise, Kim – Child Development, 2000
Examined visual fixation in infants 6 months to 2 years old for fit with theory of attentional inertia. Found that fixations had lognormal distribution, heart rate decreased during a look, and heart rate returned to prestimulus levels immediately before look offset. Older children showed different looking patterns to two types of stimuli; younger…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control, Attention Span
