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Download full textHartley, Deborah; Thomas, David G. – 1993
This study investigated the relationship of cognitive developmental changes to physiological and anatomical changes by measuring both types of data within the same subjects. Cortical electrical activity was measured in 24 males between 10 and 12 years of age. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from midline scalp electrodes during a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Brain, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Karmel, Bernard Z. – 1973
This document presents an analysis of the early attending responses and orienting reactions of infants which can be observed at birth and shortly thereafter. Focus is on one specific orienting reaction, the early direction and maintenance of one's eyes and head toward certain stimuli instead of others. The physical properties of stimuli that…
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Development, Brain, Child Development
Filan, Gary L.; Sullivan, Howard J. – 1982
The effectiveness of the use of self-reported imagery strategies on children's subsequent memory performance was studied, and the coding redundancy hypothesis that memory is facilitated by using an encoding procedure in both words and images was tested. The two levels of reported memory strategy (imagize, verbalize) were crossed with "think…
Descriptors: Child Development, Grade 2, Hypothesis Testing, Memory
Spencer, Patricia E.; Kelly, Arlene B. – 1993
Three groups of 12-month-old infants (10 deaf infants with hearing parents, 10 deaf infants with deaf parents, and 10 hearing infants with hearing parents) were videotaped during free play with mothers. Infant attention state was coded, identifying periods as: (1) unengaged, (2) onlooking, (3) object-attend, (4) person-attend, (5) supported joint…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Child Development, Deafness
Lema-Stern, Sandra – 1980
Four-, six- and eight-year-old children from an Evanston, Illinois school were the subjects for three experiments designed to evaluate the effects of color, complexity, movement, and incongruity on children's visual attention. Computer generated displays were used to: (1) assess developmental trends among the three age groups, (2) test a novel…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Child Development, Computer Graphics, Elementary Education
Huston-Stein, Aletha – 1977
This paper presents a review of research on television viewing and child behavior. The first section of the paper presents a brief historical review of television research. This review includes research on the effect of television on people's lives, the effects of violent content on aggressive behavior and the possible harmful effects of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Rogers, Peggy Parks; And Others – 1976
This paper reports an exploratory investigation of motor patterns characteristic of maternal gameplaying behavior conducted with forty-eight 4-, 6- and 8-month-old infants and their mothers. Videotapes of 6-minute laboratory mother-infant play sessions were segmented into maternal games which were categorized according to the type and complexity…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Infant Behavior, Infants
