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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Early Attention to Animacy: Change-Detection in 11-Month-Olds
Contributor:
Hofrichter, Ruth;
Siddiqui, Hasan;
Morrisey, Marcus N.;
Rutherford, M. D.
Published:
SAGE Publications, 2021
Published in:
Evolutionary Psychology, 19 (2021) 2, Seite 147470492110282
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/14747049211028220
ISSN:
1474-7049
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
Adults are faster and more accurate at detecting changes to animate compared to inanimate stimuli in a change-detection paradigm. We tested whether 11-month-old children detected changes to animate objects in an image more reliably than they detected changes to inanimate objects. During each trial, infants were habituated to an image of a natural scene. Once the infant habituated, the scene was replaced by a scene that was identical except that a target object was removed. Infants dishabituated significantly more often if an animate target had been removed from the scene. Dishabituation results suggested that infants, like adults, preferentially attend to animate rather than to inanimate objects.