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Direct linkLangley, Matthew D.; Van Houghton, Kaitlin; McBeath, Michael K.; Lucca, Kelsey – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Adults have a vertical attention bias (VAB) that directs their focus toward object tops and scene bottoms. This is consistent with focusing attention on the informative aspects and affordances of the environment, and generally favoring a downward gaze. The smaller size of children, combined with their relatively limited interactions with objects…
Descriptors: Attention, Bias, Young Children, Adults
Deng, Wei; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Does category representation change in the course of development? And if so, how and why? The current study attempted to answer these questions by examining category learning and category representation. In Experiment 1, 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adults were trained with either a classification task or an inference task and their…
Descriptors: Classification, Young Children, Adults, Age Differences
