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Peer reviewedGeffen, Gina; Sexton, Michael A. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Focused and divided auditory attention were studied in 7- and 10-year-old children. (BD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Auditory Stimuli, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedHuang-Pollock, Cynthia L.; Carr, Thomas H.; Nigg, Joel T. – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Examined in two studies the moderating effect of perceptual load on visual selective attention. Found that children's performance was as efficient as adults' under conditions of high but not low loads, suggesting that early selection engages rapidly maturing neural systems and late selection engages later-maturing systems. The onset of early…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control, Children
Peer reviewedFabes, Richard A.; Martin, Carol Lynn; Hanish, Laura D.; Anders, Mary C.; Madden-Derdich, Debra A. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Examined the role of same-sex peer interactions in influencing early school competence and the degree to which effortful control (EC) moderated these relations. Results indicated that EC, measured at the end of the Fall semester, moderated the relations of children's same-sex play to their school competence, measured at the end of the following…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Childhood Attitudes, Competence, Inhibition
Peer reviewedMiller, Leon K. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Investigates age differences in selective attention in a coded visual search task where subjects were given different types of information about target location before trial onset. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, College Students
