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Chan, Agnes S.; Han, Yvonne M. Y.; Leung, Winnie Wing-man; Leung, Connie; Wong, Virginia C. N.; Cheung, Mei-chun – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
Previous studies showed that the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is activated when individuals engage in attention and inhibitory control tasks. The present study examined whether ACC activity is associated with behavioral performance of the two tasks. Twenty normal and 20 children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) were subjected to…
Descriptors: Autism, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Attention Span, Inhibition
Taylor, Andrea Faber; Kuo, Frances E. – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2009
Objective: In the general population, attention is reliably enhanced after exposure to certain physical environments, particularly natural environments. This study examined the impacts of environments on attention in children with ADHD. Method: In this within subjects design, each participant experienced each of three treatments (environments) in…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Effect Size, Environmental Influences, Parks
Wagner, James; Allan, Gerri – 1983
Thirty grade 4 subjects were individually tested on a digit span test of working memory capacity (Case and Kurland) and the Reading Span Test (Daneman and Carpenter). The Reading Span Test was administered using sentences at a grade 2, grade 4, and grade 6 reading level. It was predicted that, as the decoding demands of the stimulus sentences in…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Foreign Countries