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Attention Distribution in the 24-Month-Old Child: Variations in Complexity and Incongruity of the Human Form
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Lewis, Michael; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Difficulty Level
Infant Attention to Auditory Discrepancy
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Kinney, Dennis K.; Kagan, Jerome – Child Development, 1976
Groups of 7 1/2-month-old infants heard 1 of 8 episodes consisting of no, slight, moderate, or large discrepancy between a habituated standard and a transformed auditory stimulus. Patterns of cardiac deceleration supported the hypothesis that attentiveness is an inverted-U function of the degree of discrepancy between stimulus event and schema.…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Development
Visual Preferences of Four-Month-Old Premature and Full-Term Infants
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Sigman, Marian; Parmelee, Arthur H. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age, Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
A Psychophysiological Analysis of Developmental Differences in the Ability to Resist Interference.
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Ridderinkhof, K. Richard; van der Molen, Maurits W. – Child Development, 1995
Examined age-related changes in visual selective attention--ability to resist interference--in children 5 to 12 years old and adults. The interference effect on stimulus evaluation did not discriminate between age groups; however, the interference effect on correct response activation showed a pronounced age-related reduction, suggesting a…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control
Habituation Rate and the Infant's Response to Visual Discrepancies
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McCall, Robert B.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Eye Fixations