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ArticleTitle	Development of attention and temperament in infancy
Language	J
AuthorList	Atsuko Nakagawa¹⁾, Masune Sukigara¹⁾, Rie Mizuno²⁾
Affiliation	¹⁾Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya City University ²⁾Department of Psychology, Chukyo University
Publication	Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 26 (3), 210-218, 2010
Received	Feb 9, 2009
Accepted	Oct 1, 2009
Abstract	Visual attention of 11-12 month-old infants was examined on a visual orienting task and the anti-saccade task. Temperament was assessed using the Infant Behavior Questionnaire Revised (IBQ-R). Infant behavior was also observed in the laboratory in a situation designed to identify individual differences in behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar. As a result, the ability to learn to inhibit automatic saccades toward peripheral cues which predict more attractive contralateral stimuli was obtained later in infancy. The index of inhibition based on the anti-saccade task was not related to any subscales of temperament. On the other hand, in a visual orienting task, the longest latencies and least response number were observed during disengage trials. A negative correlation was suggested between the number of responses during disengage trials and the parent-reported Fear. Regarding laboratory observation, only in the stranger situation the index of behavioral inhibition was negatively correlated to the speed of saccades during disengage trials.
Keywords	attention, temperament, regulation, eye-movement, Fear