Early Attention to Animacy: Change-Detection in 11-Month-Olds

Adults are faster and more accurate at detecting changes to animate compared to inanimate stimuli in a change-detection paradigm. We tested whether 11-month-old children detected changes to animate objects in an image more reliably than they detected changes to inanimate objects. During each trial,...

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Main Authors: Ruth Hofrichter, Hasan Siddiqui, Marcus N. Morrisey, M. D. Rutherford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-06-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049211028220