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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
Plebanek, Daniel J.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Selective attention is fundamental for learning across many situations, yet it exhibits protracted development, with young children often failing to filter out distractors. In this research, we examine links between selective attention and working memory (WM) capacity across development. One possibility is that WM is resource-limited, with…
Descriptors: Attention, Young Children, Short Term Memory, Child Development
Plebanek, Daniel J.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Grantee Submission, 2017
One of the lawlike regularities of psychological science is that of developmental progression--an increase in sensorimotor, cognitive, and social functioning from childhood to adulthood. Here, we report a rare violation of this law, a developmental reversal in attention. In Experiment 1, 4- to 5- year olds (n = 34) and adults (n = 35) performed…
Descriptors: Attention, Young Children, Adults, Age Differences
Fleury, Veronica P.; Whalon, Kelly; Gilmore, Carolyn; Wang, Xiaoning; Marks, Richard – Grantee Submission, 2021
Purpose: Reading involves the ability to decode and draw meaning from printed text. Reading skill profiles vary widely among learners with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One fairly common pattern is relative strength in decoding combined with weak comprehension skills--indicators of this profile emerge as early as the preschool years. In order…
Descriptors: Autism, Evidence Based Practice, Attention, Language Skills
Stephanie Y. Shire; Stacy Arbuckle; Wenjing Bao – Grantee Submission, 2022
Purpose: Technology-enabled adaptations of efficacious in-person early intervention programs for young children with autism spectrum disorder have the potential to conserve resources while increasing access to specialized educational services. Usability testing of online programs can support participant engagement by aligning program navigation…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Early Intervention, Young Children, Autism
Kim, Helyn; Duran, Chelsea A. K.; Cameron, Claire E.; Grissmer, David W. – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study explored transactional associations among visuomotor integration, attention, fine motor coordination, and mathematics skills in a diverse sample of one hundred thirty-five 5-year-olds (kindergarteners) and one hundred nineteen 6-year-olds (first graders) in the United States who were followed over the course of 2 school years.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Visual Perception, Psychomotor Skills, Attention
