eprintid: 21339
rev_number: 19
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2532
dir: disk0/00/02/13/39
datestamp: 2016-06-28 13:32:55
lastmod: 2016-07-07 09:00:47
status_changed: 2016-06-28 13:32:55
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Michel, Christine
title: Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Object-Directed Attention
in Early Infancy and Preschoolers
subjects: ddc-150
divisions: i-100200
adv_faculty: af-10
cterms_swd: Entwicklungspsychologie
abstract: Imagine being a newborn and perceiving the world with all of your senses for the first time. How are infants capable of handling this conceivably enormous plenty of information and novel impressions that they encounter, given their limited capacities in memory and attention? The directed attention model of infant social cognition (DAM) (Hoehl et al., 2009; Reid & Striano, 2007, 2008) offers a framework to explain these early capacities. It describes information processing as a sequence of five stages that enable the infant to reduce the amount of input through focusing on information that is of social relevance. One crucial step in this model is Stage Four, the stage of the detection of object-directed attention. In this stage, the infant uses social cues to relate the focus of attention of an agent to objects in the environment. My dissertation concentrates on the role of eye gaze direction in Stage Four of the DAM and investigates neural and behavioral correlates of different aspects of object-directed attention in early infancy and childhood.
date: 2016
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00021339
ppn_swb: 1657536092
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-213392
date_accepted: 2016-05-18
advisor: HASH(0x55f36909fbe0)
language: eng
bibsort: MICHELCHRINEURALANDB2016
full_text_status: public
citation:   Michel, Christine  (2016) Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Object-Directed Attention in Early Infancy and Preschoolers.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/21339/1/Dissertation%20Michel.pdf