title: The attentive brain: insights from developmental cognitive neuroscience.
abstract: 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, we review studies of typical and atypical visual attention development and explain how they offer insights into the mechanisms of adult visual attention. We detail interactions between visual processing and visual attention, as well as the contribution of visual attention to memory. Finally, we discuss genetic mechanisms underlying attention disorders and how attention may be modified by training.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive, Linguistic &Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
authors.forename: Dima
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Amso
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK.
authors.forename: Gaia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scerif
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology; D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D019336:Cognitive Science; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology