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Item A Dynamic Systems Approach to Visual Attention in Infancy(2021-06) Sifre, RobinInfants live in a visually cluttered world, and prioritizing attention to meaningful information is arguably the most important challenge they face to efficiently learn about their surroundings. To do so, infants must coordinate multiple attention processes across different timescales. My program of research takes a systems-level approach, applying methods from Complexity Science to understand how infant attention becomes self-organized and displays evidence of cross-scale interactivity in the first years of life. My dissertation will be the first study to examine how brain development supports the coordination of these processes that are critical for visual exploration in infancy.Item Effects of Nature-Based Learning on Elementary Students’ Sustained Attention: An Exploratory Study(2024-05) Schumacher, MossNature-based learning (NBL) is a growing approach to education, and is backed by decades of research showing that when people spend time outside, they experience benefits to their physical and mental health, relationships, academic performance, and beyond. As this style of education gains traction, it is important to explore the impact it has on students. The present study looked at the impact of NBL on the sustained attention of 16 fifth grade students by evaluating their sustained attention ability directly before and after a NBL lesson and an indoor control lesson. Results showed that after students experienced a NBL lesson, they responded significantly faster on a sustained attention measure, as compared to the pre-lesson results and the indoor control lesson results. Implications of this research and further research recommendations are provided.