Dynamics of the attentional blink in preverbal infants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America March 10, 2026 François Leroy, Shruti Naik, Rasa Gulbinaite et al.
In the first months postterm, human infants are traditionally viewed as passive to their environment, unable to focus or sustain attention on specific objects. Here, we asked whether 4-mo-old infants could engage their attention strongly enough in a visual task to block the perception of a subsequent interesting stimulus-a phenomenon known as attentional blink, which in adults reflects a serial...