Project description
Addressing disruptions in pre-term infants’ visual exploration
Babies develop remarkably quickly during their first year of life. Not only are they intrinsically driven to explore the world around them, they are also able to learn by focusing their visual attention on specific types of stimuli. The EU-funded InterPlay project will investigate the intrinsic visual exploration differences between full-term and pre-term infants. Since visual exploration and attention are usually disrupted in pre-term infants, developmental delays may result. The project will conduct a longitudinal study to integrate previous theoretical findings in the field of infants’ visual attention. This will improve current scientific and therapeutic practices, including caregiver attention-guiding behaviours addressing the disruptions in pre-term infants’ visual exploration.
Objective
Infants learn and develop at incredible speed. Although relatively helpless at birth, infants undergo significant development in the first year of life in many domains. But how do infants learn so quickly? They likely gather information that is optimal for learning by systematically allocating their visual attention to specific types of stimuli. Allocation of visual attention can be (1) intrinsically driven to guide their explorations in the world, or (2) guided by other social agents. Moreover, infants’ intrinsic visual exploration may be dependent on the “hardware”: the brain. This project aims to develop a comprehensive account of how these mechanisms interact in full-term and pre-term infants. Visual exploration and attention is often disrupted in pre-term infants, which may contribute to developmental delays. Since the World Health Organization estimates that 15 million infants are born pre-term annually, it is crucial to investigate how infants visually explore their environment and how this can be promoted through social interactions. Research into infants’ visual attention has been conducted by scientists from various fields, but few attempts have been made to integrate these findings into a comprehensive framework. As such, the interplay between these factors remains unknown. This lack of integration causes severe gaps in our theoretical understanding, hindering the development of healthcare policies and interventions. InterPlay addresses these knowledge gaps by integrating previous observations into a comprehensive, longitudinal study. The findings will have implications for current scientific and therapeutic practices. If caregiver attention-guiding behaviours could compensate disruptions in pre-term infants’ visual exploration, this would offer great potential for interventions early in life. Furthermore, infants’ brain connectivity may provide a unique predictor for the necessity of intervention, allowing healthcare providers to act in a timely manner.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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D02 CX56 Dublin
Ireland
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