APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Re-Examining Selective Attention: Children Show Neural Processing of and Learning from Distractors
- Monica Ellwood-Lowe
University of California, Berkeley - Maddy Bernstein
University of California, Berkeley - Silvia Bunge
University of California, Berkeley - Mahesh Srinivasan
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract
We find children learn not only from information they were asked to attend to, but also from distracting information they were asked to ignore. Learning from ignored stimuli is related to neural processing and does not seem to impede learning from attended stimuli, pointing to a potentially adaptive developmental phenomenon.
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