Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100616
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Visual working memory; Focused attention; Pupillometry; Task-evoked pupil responses; Infants; Cognitive effort; Eye-tracking
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- National Institutes of Health [R15HD086658]
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Attention turns looking, into seeing. Yet, little developmental research has examined the interface of attention and visual working memory (VWM), where what is seen is maintained for use in ongoing visual tasks. Using the task-evoked pupil response - a sensitive, real-time, involuntary measure of focused attention that has been shown to correlate with VWM performance in adults and older children - we examined the relationship between focused attention and VWM in 13-month-olds. We used a Delayed Match Retrieval paradigm, to test infants' VWM for object-location bindings - what went where - while recording anticipatory gaze responses and pupil dilation. We found that infants with greater focused attention during memory encoding showed significantly better memory performance. As well, trials that ended in a correct response had significantly greater pupil response during memory encoding than incorrect trials. Taken together, this shows that pupillometry can be used as a measure of focused attention in infants, and a means to identify those individuals, or moments, where cognitive effort is maximized.
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