TABLE 3.
Examples of the use of laboratory measures of infant visual attention, by the attention network addressed
| Location (general brain areas) | Appropriate infant age at testing | Information-processing skills tested | Laboratory measures (cognitive tasks) | |
| Orienting network | Parietal lobes | 3–9 mo | Disengage, shift, refocus | Habituation tasks, looking time tasks, shift rate tasks (32–34) |
| Executive network | Frontal lobes | From 8 mo | Resolution of conflict | A-not-B tasks, problem-solving tasks1 (35, 36) |
1
Although not previously linked with the executive attention network, problem-solving tasks tap higher-order processes and require voluntary control of attention (12).