New Paper: Visual short-term memory guides infants’ visual attention

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Mitsven, S. G., Cantrell, L. M., Luck, S. J., & Oakes, L. M. (in press). Visual short-term memory guides infants’ visual attention. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.04.016 (Freely available until June 14, 2018 at https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Wxvg2Hx2bbMQ)

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This new papers shows that visual short-term memory guides attention in infants. Whereas adults orient toward items matching the contents of VSTM, infants orient toward non-matching items.