The functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory-guided orienting in development
Adults are slower at locating targets in naturalistic scenes containing a social distractor compared to an equally salient non-social distractor, and their subsequent memory for targets in social scenes is poorer. Therefore, adults’ social biases affect not only attention, but also their memory. Six...
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| description | Adults are slower at locating targets in naturalistic scenes containing a social distractor compared to an equally salient non-social distractor, and their subsequent memory for targets in social scenes is poorer. Therefore, adults’ social biases affect not only attention, but also their memory. Six-to-ten year-old children and young adults took part in the current study, employing a combination of behavioural and eye-tracking measures. Social stimuli in naturalistic scenes distracted both children and adults during visual search, as demonstrated by their gaze behavior and search times. In addition, eye-tracking revealed even greater attentional capture by social distractors for children. Memory for targets was worse in social compared to non-social scenes. Intriguingly, children demonstrated overall better memory precision than adults. Finally, when participants detected previously learnt targets within visual scenes, adults were slower for targets appearing at unexpected (invalid) locations within social scenes compared to non-social scenes, but this was not the case for children. In their entirety, these findings suggest that the interplay between social attentional biases, memory and memory-guided attention is complex and modulated by age-related differences. Complementary methodologies in developmental cognitive neuroscience shed light on the mechanisms through which social attention and memory interact over development. Keywords: Social attention, Memory-guided orienting, Development |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2b35e9bde36e4476911f6cffe7a219262022-12-22T03:39:05ZengElsevierDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience1878-92932019-04-0136The functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory-guided orienting in developmentBrianna Ruth Doherty0Alexander Fraser1Anna Christina Nobre2Gaia Scerif3Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United KingdomDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United KingdomDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United KingdomDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Corresponding author at: Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development Group, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.Adults are slower at locating targets in naturalistic scenes containing a social distractor compared to an equally salient non-social distractor, and their subsequent memory for targets in social scenes is poorer. Therefore, adults’ social biases affect not only attention, but also their memory. Six-to-ten year-old children and young adults took part in the current study, employing a combination of behavioural and eye-tracking measures. Social stimuli in naturalistic scenes distracted both children and adults during visual search, as demonstrated by their gaze behavior and search times. In addition, eye-tracking revealed even greater attentional capture by social distractors for children. Memory for targets was worse in social compared to non-social scenes. Intriguingly, children demonstrated overall better memory precision than adults. Finally, when participants detected previously learnt targets within visual scenes, adults were slower for targets appearing at unexpected (invalid) locations within social scenes compared to non-social scenes, but this was not the case for children. In their entirety, these findings suggest that the interplay between social attentional biases, memory and memory-guided attention is complex and modulated by age-related differences. Complementary methodologies in developmental cognitive neuroscience shed light on the mechanisms through which social attention and memory interact over development. Keywords: Social attention, Memory-guided orienting, Developmenthttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187892931830121X |
| spellingShingle | Brianna Ruth Doherty Alexander Fraser Anna Christina Nobre Gaia Scerif The functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory-guided orienting in development Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience |
| title | The functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory-guided orienting in development |
| title_full | The functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory-guided orienting in development |
| title_fullStr | The functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory-guided orienting in development |
| title_full_unstemmed | The functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory-guided orienting in development |
| title_short | The functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory-guided orienting in development |
| title_sort | functional consequences of social attention on memory precision and on memory guided orienting in development |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187892931830121X |
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