News Finding: Focused Attention in Toddlers 
Paper Finding: Toddlerhood is an important period in the study of attention, given the significant developmental shift in the nature of attention occurring near the end of the first year, coupled with the emergence and increased consolidation of self-regulation across early childhood .
News Context: Focused Attention in Toddlers 
Paper Context: The findings suggest that individual differences in focused attention evidence stability early in life but can be influenced by adult socialization. Toddlerhood is an important period in the study of attention, given the significant developmental shift in the nature of attention occurring near the end of the first year, coupled with the emergence and increased consolidation of self-regulation across early childhood . The initial attentional system reflects more automatic, orienting processes, whereas the second system, emerging near the end of the first year, is more effortfully controlled.