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de Heering, Adelaide; Schiltz, Christine – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
Sensitivity to spacing information within faces improves with age and reaches maturity only at adolescence. In this study, we tested 6-16-year-old children's sensitivity to vertical spacing when the eyes or the mouth is the facial feature selectively manipulated. Despite the similar discriminability of these manipulations when they are embedded in…
Descriptors: Human Body, Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Visual Perception
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Tine, Michele – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
This study was designed to investigate if the working memory profiles of children living in rural poverty are distinct from the working memory profiles of children living in urban poverty. Verbal and visuospatial working memory tasks were administered to sixth-grade students living in low-income rural, low-income urban, high-income rural, and…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Urban Areas, Poverty, Comparative Analysis