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Volkmer, Sindram; Wetzel, Nicole; Widmann, Andreas; Scharf, Florian – Developmental Science, 2022
The ability to shield against distraction while focusing on a task requires the operation of executive functions and is essential for successful learning. We investigated the short-term dynamics of distraction control in a data set of 269 children aged 4-10 years and 51 adults pooled from three studies using multilevel models. Participants…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Children, Adults
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Loh, Karin; Fintor, Edina; Nolden, Sophie; Fels, Janina – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Children's development and education take place in educational buildings with highly complex acoustic scenes, including spatially distributed target speakers, many surrounding distracting sounds, and general background noises. Auditory selective attention, therefore, is a valuable tool to orient oneself, to focus on specific sound sources, and to…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Stimuli, Acoustics, Attention Control
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Shuting Li; Keitaro Machida; Emma L. Burrows; Katherine A. Johnson – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Research is equivocal on whether attention orienting is atypical in autism. This study investigated two types of attention orienting in autistic people and accounted for the potential confounders of alerting level, co-occurring symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and anxiety, age, and sex. Twenty-seven autistic participants…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Cowan, Nelson; AuBuchon, Angela M.; Gilchrist, Amanda L.; Blume, Christopher L.; Boone, Alexander P.; Saults, J. Scott – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Younger children have more difficulty in sharing attention between two concurrent tasks than do older participants, but in addition to this developmental change, we documented changes in the nature of attention sharing. We studied children 6-8 and 10-14 years old and college students (in all, 104 women and 76 men; 3% Hispanic, 3% Black or African…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Development, Children, Preadolescents
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Kotowicz, Justyna; Woll, Bencie; Herman, Rosalind – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2023
The aim of this study is twofold: To examine if deafness is invariably associated with deficits in executive function (EF) and to investigate the relationship between sign language proficiency and EF in deaf children of deaf parents with early exposure to a sign language. It is also the first study of EF in children acquiring Polish Sign Language.…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Deafness, Correlation, Sign Language
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Wetzel, Nicole; Scharf, Florian; Widmann, Andreas – Child Development, 2019
Attention control abilities are relevant for learning success. Little is known about the development of audio-visual attention in early childhood. Four groups of children between the ages of 4 and 10 years and adults performed an audio-visual distraction paradigm (N = 106). Multilevel analyses revealed increased reaction times in a visual…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Auditory Stimuli, Visual Stimuli, Task Analysis
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Andrés, María Laura; Galli, Juan Ignacio; del Valle, Macarena; Vernucci, Santiago; López-Morales, Hernán; Gelpi-Trudo, Rosario; Canet-Juric, Lorena – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have implemented preventive measures towards reducing infections. These conditions can affect the mental health of children and adolescents; however, this has not yet been fully explored. Objective: The aim of the study was to analyze changes in symptomatology and positive emotions in…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Mental Health, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Parent Child Relationship
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Murphy, Jeremy W.; Foxe, John J.; Molholm, Sophie – Developmental Science, 2016
The ability to attend to one among multiple sources of information is central to everyday functioning. Just as central is the ability to switch attention among competing inputs as the task at hand changes. Such processes develop surprisingly slowly, such that even into adolescence, we remain slower and more error prone at switching among tasks…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Executive Function, Physiology, Brain
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Wainryb, Cecilia; Pasupathi, Monisha; Bourne, Stacia; Oldroyd, Kris – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The study's goals were twofold: (a) to examine the effectiveness of narrating an angry experience, compared with relying on distraction or mere reexposure to the experience, for anger reduction across childhood and adolescence, and (b) to identify the features of narratives that are associated with more and less anger reduction for younger and…
Descriptors: Narration, Psychological Patterns, Stress Variables, Stress Management
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Shimi, Andria; Nobre, Anna C.; Astle, Duncan; Scerif, Gaia – Child Development, 2014
How does developing attentional control operate within visual short-term memory (VSTM)? Seven-year-olds, 11-year-olds, and adults (total n = 205) were asked to report whether probe items were part of preceding visual arrays. In Experiment 1, central or peripheral cues oriented attention to the location of to-be-probed items either prior to…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Short Term Memory, Children, Adults
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Foster, Nicholas E. V.; Ouimet, Tia; Tryfon, Ana; Doyle-Thomas, Krissy; Anagnostou, Evdokia; Hyde, Krista L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
In vision, typically-developing (TD) individuals perceive "global" (whole) before "local" (detailed) features, whereas individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit a local bias. However, auditory global-local distinctions are less clear in ASD, particularly in terms of age and attention effects. To these aims, here…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Intonation, Language Processing, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Leitzke, Brian T.; Pollak, Seth D. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
There have been long-standing differences of opinion regarding the influence of the face relative to that of contextual information on how individuals process and judge facial expressions of emotion. However, developmental changes in how individuals use such information have remained largely unexplored and could be informative in attempting to…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Eye Movements
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Kovshoff, Hanna; Iarocci, Grace; Shore, David I.; Burack, Jacob A. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
The developmental trajectories of selective and divided attention were examined in relation to the processing of hierarchically integrated stimuli. The participants included children in 4 age groups (6, 8, 10, and 12 years) and a group of young adults (24 years) who completed 2 computer-based attention tasks. In the selective attention task, the…
Descriptors: Attention, Individual Development, Perception, Children
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Scott, Allie; Winchester, Suzy Barcelos; Sullivan, Mary C. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Premature infants have significant risk for later behavior problems. This study examined growth trajectories of three problem behaviors across five developmental age points from preschool to early adulthood in a well-characterized sample of premature infants. The effects of neonatal risk, gender, and socioeconomic context were modeled on these…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Premature Infants, Gender Differences, Scores
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Berger, Carole; Valdois, Sylviane; Lallier, Marie; Donnadieu, Sophie – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
The present study explored the temporal allocation of attention in groups of 8-year-old children, 10-year-old children, and adults performing a rapid serial visual presentation task. In a dual-condition task, participants had to detect a briefly presented target (T2) after identifying an initial target (T1) embedded in a random series of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Task Analysis, Performance, Children
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