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Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

Volume 5, 2023

Neurodevelopment of Attention, Learning, and Memory Systems in Infancy

Abstract

Understanding how we come to make sense of our environments requires understanding both how we take in new information and how we flexibly process and store that information in memory for subsequent retrieval. In other words, infant cognitive development research is best served by studies that probe infant attention as well as infant learning and memory development. In this article, we first review what is known about infant attention and what is known about a selection of learning systems available in infancy. Then, we review what is known about the interactions between attention and these systems, focusing on infancy when possible but highlighting relevant child and adult literatures when infant research is yet scarce. Finally, we close by proposing a path forward, which we believe will result in a clearer understanding of the interactions between attention and memory that govern infant learning.

Keyword(s): attention development, cognitive development, infancy learning, infant attention, infant neurodevelopment
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