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Moffett, Adrienne – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Based on an M.A. degree submitted to McMaster University, England.
Descriptors: Attention Span, Difficulty Level, Eye Fixations, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedWell, Arnold D.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Robust interference effects were found which declined with age. Manipulating discriminability of the relevant stimulus dimension resulted in large changes in sorting time, but interference effects did not vary with baseline difficulty. These results were interpreted as strongly supporting both an absolute decrement model and a developmental trend…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention Control, Attention Span
Direct linkBrodeur, Darlene A. – Cognitive Development, 2004
Children (ages 5, 7, and 9 years) and young adults completed two visual attention tasks that required them to make a forced choice identification response to a target shape presented in the center of a computer screen. In the first task (high correlation condition) each target was flanked with the same distracters on 80% of the trials (valid…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Attention Control, Children, Young Adults
