The development of attentional control mechanisms in multisensory environments

•By age 7, children show adult-like task-set contingent attentional capture in behavior (top-down visual attentional control).•Children showed no behavioral evidence for multisensory enhancement of attention capture by visual objects paired with sounds.•But 9-year-olds adult-like EEG topographic pat...

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Vydané v:Developmental cognitive neuroscience Ročník 48; s. 100930
Hlavní autori: Turoman, Nora, Tivadar, Ruxandra I., Retsa, Chrysa, Maillard, Anne M., Scerif, Gaia, Matusz, Pawel J.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Netherlands Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2021
Elsevier
Predmet:
Adult
Attentional control
Auditory Perception
Child
Child, Preschool
Cognition
Cues
Development
Electrical neuroimaging
Electroencephalography
Female
Humans
Male
Multisensory
N2pc
Neuroimaging
Original Research
Photic Stimulation
Visual attention
Visual Perception
Young Adult
Development
N2pc
Electrical neuroimaging
Attentional control
Visual attention
Multisensory
ISSN:1878-9293, 1878-9307, 1878-9307
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Shrnutí:•By age 7, children show adult-like task-set contingent attentional capture in behavior (top-down visual attentional control).•Children showed no behavioral evidence for multisensory enhancement of attention capture by visual objects paired with sounds.•But 9-year-olds adult-like EEG topographic patterns, differing when elicited by multisensory vs. purely visual distractors.•Traditional N2pc analyses showed no N2pc component in any of the children groups, and no multisensory modulations in adults.•Electrical neuroimaging of well-known ERP components is more sensitive to developmental change in neurocognitive processes. 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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ISSN:1878-9293
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1878-9307
DOI:10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100930