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Visual and Cognitive Processes Contribute to Age-Related Improvements in Visual Selective Attention
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Andrew Lynn; John Maule; Dima Amso – Child Development, 2024
Children (N = 103, 4-9 years, 59 females, 84% White, c. 2019) completed visual processing, visual feature integration (color, luminance, motion), and visual search tasks. Contrast sensitivity and feature search improved with age similarly for luminance and color-defined targets. Incidental feature integration improved more with age for…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Age Differences, Light, Color
The Selectivity of Motion-Driven Visual Attention in Infants.
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Nagata, Yoko; Dannemiller, James L. – Child Development, 1996
Assessed 14-week-olds' attention to green or red target objects moving in a field of distracting objects that varied in color. Found that infants' detection of green moving targets was masked in the presence of mixed red and green objects. Masking was not observed for red targets or for green targets in a field of green objects. (BC)
Descriptors: Attention, Color, Infants, Motion
Stimulus Preference, Reinforcer Effectiveness, and Relational Responding in Infants.
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Fagen, Jeffrey W. – Child Development, 1980
Four-month-old infants' stimulus preferences were assessed using an operant paradigm with mobile reinforcers of different colors (blue, green). (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Attention, Color, Dimensional Preference, Infant Behavior
Color Cues and Rehearsal in Short-Term Memory
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Sabo, Ruth A.; Hagen, John W. – Child Development, 1973
Study was designed to investigate the effects of color cues and of subject-employed strategies in the development of selective attention in a short-term memory task. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Color, Cues