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Infant attention span

An infant’s attention span is the developing ability to orient, stay alert, process input, and disengage when stimulation is enough.

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Baby attention span explained

Baby attention span explained

What baby attention span really means In infancy, attention span is not the same as the adult ability to concentrate on a task for a sustained period. It is closer to a set of early neurodevelopmental skills: orienting toward a stimulus, maintaining alertness, filtering competing sensory input, shifting gaze when something new appears, and disengaging […]