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- Title
Attention control in preterm and term 5‐month‐old infants: Cross‐task stability increases with gestational age.
- Authors
Perra, Oliver; Winstanley, Alice; Sperotto, Rebecca; Gattis, Merideth
- Abstract
Cross‐task stability refers to performance consistency across different settings and measures of the same construct. Cross‐task stability can help us understand developmental processes, including how risks such as preterm birth affect outcomes. We investigated cross‐task stability of attention control in 32 preterm and 39 term infants. All infants had the same chronological age at time of testing (5 months) but varied in gestational age (GA) at birth (30–42 weeks). Infants completed an experimental attention following task with a researcher and a naturalistic play observation with their mothers. Both preterm and term infants demonstrated attention following in the experimental task. GA and flexibility of attention were related: the likelihood of no turn trials decreased with increasing GA. To evaluate cross‐task stability, we compared attention performance in the experimental and naturalistic settings. Flexible attention shifts on the experimental task were positively related to attention to objects in the naturalistic observation. Furthermore, the association between flexible attention shifts on the experimental task and attention to objects in the naturalistic observation was moderated by GA. Our study provides initial evidence that the consolidation of attention control increases with GA. These findings highlight the value of comparing experimental and observational measures of attention.
- Subjects
CROSS-sectional method; STATISTICAL correlation; INFANT psychology; INFANT development; RESEARCH funding; MOTHERS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ATTENTION; MOTHER-infant relationship; GESTATIONAL age; RESEARCH; VISUAL perception; COMPARATIVE studies; CONFIDENCE intervals; CHILDREN
- Publication
Infancy, 2024, Vol 29, Issue 3, p437
- ISSN
1525-0008
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/infa.12574