Eye-Tracking

Can children suppress attentional capture by salient distractors?

A key debate is whether physically salient objects, such as brightly colored items, have an automatic ability to “capture” visual attention. There is growing evidence that adults are able to suppress attentional capture by salient singletons in favor …

Children show neither attentional capture nor suppression

Saccadic pre-attentive measures provide insight into illusory contour detection in children

Hadad and colleagues (2010) found that the developmental trajectory for processing of illusory contours extends through early childhood, reaching adult-like levels in adolescence. Processing these contours requires interpolation between inducing …