Visual attention functions as a filter to select environmental information for learning and
memory, making it the first step in the eventual cascade of thought and action systems. Here …

During the last 2 decades, major advances have been made in understanding the
development of executive functions (EFs) in early childhood. This article reviews the EF …

Cognitive control, the ability to voluntarily guide our behavior, continues to improve
throughout adolescence. Below we review the literature on age-related changes in brain …

Publisher Summary Development refers to the mechanisms of change that ultimately lead to
maturity in adulthood. Although much is known about the significant advances that occur in …

In simple tests of preference, infants as young as newborns prefer faces and face-like stimuli
over distractors. Little is known, however, about the development of attention to faces in …

The current review offers a unique introduction to the use of corneal reflection eye tracking in
infancy research. We provide a detailed description of how to calibrate, collect, and analyze …

Negative Priming (NP) is an influential paradigm in cognitive psychology that was originally
developed to measure attentional selection. Yet, up to the mid-1990s, a large number of …

Inhibitory control matures through adolescence and into early adulthood, impacting decision-
making. Impairments in inhibitory control are associated with various psychopathologies …

How do young children direct their attention to other people in the natural world? Although
many studies have examined the perception of faces and of goal‐directed actions, relatively …

As one of the core executive functions, inhibition plays an important role in human life
through development. Inhibitory control is defined as the ability to suppress actions when …