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The development of attentional control mechanisms in multisensory environments

Outside the laboratory, people need to pay attention to relevant objects that are typically multisensory, but it remains poorly understood how the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms develop. We investigated when adult-like mechanisms controlling one’s attentional selection of visual and multisenso...

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Autores principales: Turoman, Nora, Tivadar, Ruxandra I., Retsa, Chrysa, Maillard, Anne M., Scerif, Gaia, Matusz, Pawel J.
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Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7873372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33561691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100930
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author Turoman, Nora
Tivadar, Ruxandra I.
Retsa, Chrysa
Maillard, Anne M.
Scerif, Gaia
Matusz, Pawel J.
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Tivadar, Ruxandra I.
Retsa, Chrysa
Maillard, Anne M.
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description Outside the laboratory, people need to pay attention to relevant objects that are typically multisensory, but it remains poorly understood how the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms develop. We investigated when adult-like mechanisms controlling one’s attentional selection of visual and multisensory objects emerge across childhood. Five-, 7-, and 9-year-olds were compared with adults in their performance on a computer game-like multisensory spatial cueing task, while 129-channel EEG was simultaneously recorded. Markers of attentional control were behavioural spatial cueing effects and the N2pc ERP component (analysed traditionally and using a multivariate electrical neuroimaging framework). In behaviour, adult-like visual attentional control was present from age 7 onwards, whereas multisensory control was absent in all children groups. In EEG, multivariate analyses of the activity over the N2pc time-window revealed stable brain activity patterns in children. Adult-like visual-attentional control EEG patterns were present age 7 onwards, while multisensory control activity patterns were found in 9-year-olds (albeit behavioural measures showed no effects). By combining rigorous yet naturalistic paradigms with multivariate signal analyses, we demonstrated that visual attentional control seems to reach an adult-like state at ∼7 years, before adult-like multisensory control, emerging at ∼9 years. These results enrich our understanding of how attention in naturalistic settings develops.
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spelling pubmed-78733722021-02-17 The development of attentional control mechanisms in multisensory environments Turoman, Nora Tivadar, Ruxandra I. Retsa, Chrysa Maillard, Anne M. Scerif, Gaia Matusz, Pawel J. Dev Cogn Neurosci Original Research Outside the laboratory, people need to pay attention to relevant objects that are typically multisensory, but it remains poorly understood how the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms develop. We investigated when adult-like mechanisms controlling one’s attentional selection of visual and multisensory objects emerge across childhood. Five-, 7-, and 9-year-olds were compared with adults in their performance on a computer game-like multisensory spatial cueing task, while 129-channel EEG was simultaneously recorded. Markers of attentional control were behavioural spatial cueing effects and the N2pc ERP component (analysed traditionally and using a multivariate electrical neuroimaging framework). In behaviour, adult-like visual attentional control was present from age 7 onwards, whereas multisensory control was absent in all children groups. In EEG, multivariate analyses of the activity over the N2pc time-window revealed stable brain activity patterns in children. Adult-like visual-attentional control EEG patterns were present age 7 onwards, while multisensory control activity patterns were found in 9-year-olds (albeit behavioural measures showed no effects). By combining rigorous yet naturalistic paradigms with multivariate signal analyses, we demonstrated that visual attentional control seems to reach an adult-like state at ∼7 years, before adult-like multisensory control, emerging at ∼9 years. These results enrich our understanding of how attention in naturalistic settings develops. Elsevier 2021-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7873372/ /pubmed/33561691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100930 Text en © 2021 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Turoman, Nora
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Retsa, Chrysa
Maillard, Anne M.
Scerif, Gaia
Matusz, Pawel J.
The development of attentional control mechanisms in multisensory environments
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7873372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33561691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100930
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