A protocol for social interactive assessment of infant attention set-shifting between 12-24 months of age

This protocol describes an adaptation of a classic sequential touching object categorisation task to assess infant attention set-shifting, suitable for ages 12-24 months. The task is conducted in a social interactive context with a parent, who scaffolds their infants' attention shift from high-...

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Main Authors: Tan, Xing Xi, Leong, Victoria
Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171542
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description This protocol describes an adaptation of a classic sequential touching object categorisation task to assess infant attention set-shifting, suitable for ages 12-24 months. The task is conducted in a social interactive context with a parent, who scaffolds their infants' attention shift from high-salience to low-salience dimensional properties of objects (e.g., shape vs material). This task is adapted from Ellis and Oakes (2006), where 14 month-old infants were able to flexibly attend to both shape and material. In this paper, we present a methodological innovation which permits the direct measurement of the effect of parent-child interactions on an early developing executive function skill. This novel social interactive protocol permits direct assessment of the effect of parent-child interaction on an early executive function skill, attention set-shifting.•The parental role is to scaffold a shift in their child's attention from a high salient (e.g. shape) to a low-salient (e.g. material) dimension of the stimulus set.•The protocol is suitable for infants aged between 12 and 24 months.
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spelling ntu-10356/1715422023-11-05T15:30:27Z A protocol for social interactive assessment of infant attention set-shifting between 12-24 months of age Tan, Xing Xi Leong, Victoria School of Social Sciences Social sciences::Psychology Switching Cognitive Flexibility This protocol describes an adaptation of a classic sequential touching object categorisation task to assess infant attention set-shifting, suitable for ages 12-24 months. The task is conducted in a social interactive context with a parent, who scaffolds their infants' attention shift from high-salience to low-salience dimensional properties of objects (e.g., shape vs material). This task is adapted from Ellis and Oakes (2006), where 14 month-old infants were able to flexibly attend to both shape and material. In this paper, we present a methodological innovation which permits the direct measurement of the effect of parent-child interactions on an early developing executive function skill. This novel social interactive protocol permits direct assessment of the effect of parent-child interaction on an early executive function skill, attention set-shifting.•The parental role is to scaffold a shift in their child's attention from a high salient (e.g. shape) to a low-salient (e.g. material) dimension of the stimulus set.•The protocol is suitable for infants aged between 12 and 24 months. Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) National Research Foundation (NRF) Published version This research is supported by the National Research Foundation, Singapore, A∗STAR under its Human Health Potential Prenatal / Early Childhood grant to Victoria Leong (H22P0M0002). 2023-10-30T04:29:50Z 2023-10-30T04:29:50Z 2023 Journal Article Tan, X. X. & Leong, V. (2023). A protocol for social interactive assessment of infant attention set-shifting between 12-24 months of age. MethodsX, 11, 102273-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2023.102273 2215-0161 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171542 10.1016/j.mex.2023.102273 37448952 2-s2.0-85164267844 11 102273 en H22P0M0002 MethodsX © 2023 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). application/pdf
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Cognitive Flexibility
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Leong, Victoria
A protocol for social interactive assessment of infant attention set-shifting between 12-24 months of age
title A protocol for social interactive assessment of infant attention set-shifting between 12-24 months of age
title_full A protocol for social interactive assessment of infant attention set-shifting between 12-24 months of age
title_fullStr A protocol for social interactive assessment of infant attention set-shifting between 12-24 months of age
title_full_unstemmed A protocol for social interactive assessment of infant attention set-shifting between 12-24 months of age
title_short A protocol for social interactive assessment of infant attention set-shifting between 12-24 months of age
title_sort protocol for social interactive assessment of infant attention set shifting between 12 24 months of age
topic Social sciences::Psychology
Switching
Cognitive Flexibility
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171542
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