Spatial cueing by a novel agent in preschool children and adults

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dc.contributor.advisorBeier, Jonathan Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorTerrizzi, Brandonen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-26T05:45:21Z
dc.date.available2015-06-26T05:45:21Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the current study we assessed preschool children and adults' reflexive, covert spatial attentional response to a novel entity. In particular, we assessed whether covert attention was selectively engaged after construing the novel entity as an agent. Previous research has demonstrated that children and adults' covert spatial attention may be flexibly engaged by a non-directional cueing stimulus (e.g., a circle), however this attentional response is neither spontaneous nor is it reflexive (i.e., participants were told that the stimulus predicted the eventual target's location). For the first time we have shown that covert spatial attention is spontaneously and reflexively engaged by a morphologically unfamiliar cueing character when it is interpreted as an agent but not otherwise. The implication of this finding for theoretical accounts of the development of covert attention and agency attributions more generally are discussed.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M22H0F
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16673
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledDevelopmental psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSocial psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledRoboticsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledattentionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcommunicationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcovert attentionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledintentional stanceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollednovel agentsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial perceptionen_US
dc.titleSpatial cueing by a novel agent in preschool children and adultsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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