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Visual Search and Popout in Infancy
Scott A. Adler
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ABSTRACT
Attentional selection enables efficient information
processing by selecting relevant information and fil-
tering out irrelevant information. For infants, atten-
tional selection is critical because they are first
constructing a knowledge base of the world. Visual
search and texture segregation studies with adults
have indicated that items that contain a unique per-
ceptual feature automatically and selectively capture
attention (i.e., popout), irrespective of the number of
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