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Direct linkJaeah Kim; Shashank Singh; Catarina Vales; Emily Keebler; Anna V. Fisher; Erik D. Thiessen – Grantee Submission, 2023
In this paper, we decompose selective sustained attending behavior into components of continuous attention maintenance and attentional transitions and study how each of these components develops in young children. Our results in two experiments suggest that changes in children's ability to return attention to a target locus after distraction…
Descriptors: Young Children, Attention, Child Behavior, Cognitive Processes
Emily Keebler; Jaeah Kim; Erik D. Thiessen; Anna V. Fisher – Grantee Submission, 2019
The ability to maintain attentive state over a period of time (i.e., Selective Sustained Attention) is important for higher-order cognition but challenging to assess in preschool-age children. The TrackIt task was developed to address this challenge and has been argued to be sensitive to age-related differences in selective sustained attention in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Attention, Age Differences
