News Finding: Maybe nobody misses these things or are somehow unaware that social interactions are becoming so detached.
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: When a child sees a parent staring at a phone or screen and then they have one stuck in front of them the child learns nothing about social interaction, except that maybe it is not important. Maybe nobody misses these things or are somehow unaware that social interactions are becoming so detached. Within 10 minutes of arriving only two were talking to each other.
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.