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Oaks, Lisa M.; Tellinghuisen, Donald J. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Two studies examined whether sustained attention during object exploration reflects more active cognitive processing than do other attention components. One study suggested that length of infants' examining is related to the amount of information to be processed. The other showed infants were less distractible during examining, suggesting that…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Child Behavior, Cognitive Processes

Delong, Alton J.; And Others – Early Education and Development, 1994
Examined effects of a reduced-scale play environment on the temporal aspects of complex play behavior. Children playing with playdough in a 7 x 5 x 5-foot structure began complex play more quickly, played in longer segments, and spent slightly more time in complex play than when in full-size conditions, suggesting that scale-reduced environments…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes

DeLeon, Iser G.; Anders, Bonita M.; Rodriguez-Catter, Vanessa; Neidert, Pamela L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2000
The automatically reinforced self-injury of a girl (age 11) with autism was treated by providing noncontingent access to a single set of preferred toys during 30-minute sessions. Rotating toy sets after 10 minutes or providing access to multiple toy sets resulted in reductions that lasted the entire 30 minutes. (Contains four references.)…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Autism, Behavior Modification, Females
Newman, Rochelle S. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
This study examined infants' abilities to separate speech from different talkers and to recognize a familiar word (the infant's own name) in the context of noise. In 4 experiments, infants heard repetitions of either their names or unfamiliar names in the presence of background babble. Five-month-old infants listened longer to their names when the…
Descriptors: Infants, Attention Span, Acoustics, Recognition (Psychology)
Soto, David; Heinke, Dietmar; Humphreys, Glyn W.; Blanco, Manuel J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
Four experiments explored the interrelations between working memory, attention, and eye movements. Observers had to identify a tilted line amongst vertical distractors. Each line was surrounded by a colored shape that could be precued by a matching item held in memory. Relative to a neutral baseline, in which no shapes matched the memory item,…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Memory, Eye Movements, Attention Span
Beaman, C. Philip – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
High-span individuals (as measured by the operation span [OSPAN] technique) are less likely than low-span individuals to notice their own names in an unattended auditory stream (A. R. A. Conway, N. Cowan, & M. F. Bunting, 2001). The possibility that OSPAN accounts for individual differences in auditory distraction on an immediate recall test was…
Descriptors: Semantics, Memory, Attention Span, Auditory Stimuli
Anderson, Adam K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
Identification of a 1st target stimulus in a rapid serial visual presentation sequence leads to transient impairment in report for a 2nd target; this is known as the attentional blink (AB). This AB impairment was substantially alleviated for emotionally significant target words. AB sparing was not attributable to a variety of nonaffective stimulus…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Affective Behavior, Attention Span, Psychological Patterns
Gray, Rob – Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, 2004
A simulated baseball batting task was used to compare the relative effects of attending to extraneous information (tone frequency) and attending to skill execution (direction of bat movement) on performance and swing kinematics and to evaluate how these effects differ as a function of expertise. The extraneous dual task degraded batting…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Team Sports, Computer Simulation, Evaluation Methods
Weatherholt, Tara N.; Harris, Ruby C.; Burns, Barbara M.; Clement, Catherine – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2006
This study examined the relationship between specific attentional aspects of processing capacity and analogical reasoning in children from low-income families. 77 children aged 48-77 (M = 56.7) months were assessed on an analogical reasoning task (matrices subtest of the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test) and on computerized attention tasks designed…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills, Young Children
Wang, Tsui-Ying; Huang, Ho-Chuan; Huang, Hsiu-Shuang – Computers and Education, 2006
We propose a computer-assisted cancellation test system (CACTS) to understand the visual attention performance and visual search strategies in school children. The main aim of this paper is to present our design and development of the CACTS and demonstrate some ways in which computer techniques can allow the educator not only to obtain more…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Visual Perception, Search Strategies, Test Construction
Shanahan, Michelle A.; Pennington, Bruce F.; Yerys, Benjamin E.; Scott, Ashley; Boada, Richard; Willcutt, Eric G.; Olson, Richard K.; DeFries, John C. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
The goal of the current study was to test whether deficits in processing speed (PS) may be a shared cognitive risk factor in reading disability (RD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which are known to be comorbid. Literature on ADHD and RD suggests that deficits on tasks with a speeded component are seen in both of these…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Risk, Reading Difficulties, Attention Deficit Disorders
Faraone, Stephen V.; Wigal, Sharon B.; Hodgkins, Paul – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2007
Objective: Compare observed and forecasted efficacy of mixed amphetamine salts extended release (MAS-XR; Adderall) with atomoxetine (Strattera) in ADHD children. Method: The authors analyze data from a randomized, double-blind, multicenter, parallel-group, forced-dose-escalation laboratory school study of children ages 6 to 12 with ADHD combined…
Descriptors: Laboratory Schools, Attention Deficit Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Hyperactivity
Roy-Charland, Annie; Saint-Aubin, Jean; Evans, Mary Ann – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
Previous studies have revealed that preschool-age children who are not yet readers pay little attention to written text in a shared book reading situation (see Evans & Saint-Aubin, 2005). The current study was aimed at investigating the constancy of these results across reading development, by monitoring eye movements in shared book reading, for…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Eye Movements, Kindergarten, Grade 4
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Compton, Donald L.; Fuchs, Douglas; Hollenbeck, Kurstin N.; Craddock, Caitlin F.; Hamlett, Carol L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
Dynamic assessment (DA) involves helping students learn a task and indexing responsiveness to that instruction as a measure of learning potential. The purpose of this study was to explore the utility of a DA of algebraic learning in predicting third graders' development of mathematics problem solving. In the fall, 122 third-grade students were…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Evaluation Methods, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Edmundson, Mark – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Following an encounter with a student at the beginning of fall term, the writer reflects that today's student generation is a singular one: its members want to study, travel, make friends, make more friends, read everything (superfast), take in all the movies, listen to every hot band, keep up with everyone they've ever known. They live to…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life, Internet, Cultural Context