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Classroom Displays--Attraction or Distraction? Evidence of Impact on Attention and Learning from Children with and without Autism
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Hanley, Mary; Khairat, Mariam; Taylor, Korey; Wilson, Rachel; Cole-Fletcher, Rachel; Riby, Deborah M. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Paying attention is a critical first step toward learning. For children in primary school classrooms there can be many things to attend to other than the focus of a lesson, such as visual displays on classroom walls. The aim of this study was to use eye-tracking techniques to explore the impact of visual displays on attention and learning for…
Descriptors: Attention, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Eye Movements
Executive Functions as Predictors of Math Learning Disabilities
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Toll, Sylke W. M.; Van der Ven, Sanne H. G.; Kroesbergen, Evelyn H.; Van Luit, Johannes E. H. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
In the past years, an increasing number of studies have investigated executive functions as predictors of individual differences in mathematical abilities. The present longitudinal study was designed to investigate whether the executive functions shifting, inhibition, and working memory differ between low achieving and typically achieving children…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Learning Disabilities, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
Sensory Modality, Temperament, and the Development of Sustained Attention: A Vigilance Study in Children and Adults
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Curtindale, Lori; Laurie-Rose, Cynthia; Bennett-Murphy, Laura; Hull, Sarah – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Applying optimal stimulation theory, the present study explored the development of sustained attention as a dynamic process. It examined the interaction of modality and temperament over time in children and adults. Second-grade children and college-aged adults performed auditory and visual vigilance tasks. Using the Carey temperament…
Descriptors: Adults, Stimulation, Children, Attention Span
The Role of Strategic Attention Deployment in Development of Self-Regulation: Predicting Preschoolers' Delay of Gratification from Mother-Toddler Interactions.
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Sethi, Anita; Mischel, Walter; Aber, J. Lawrence; Shoda, Yuichi; Rodriguez, Monica Larrea – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Examined role of toddlers' attention deployment strategies in predicting 5-year-olds' delay-of-gratification strategies. Found that toddlers' use of effective attention deployment strategies to cope with separation from mother and with maternal behavior (controlling or noncontrolling) predicted effective delay-of-gratification strategies at age 5,…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Comparative Analysis, Delay of Gratification
The Role of Joint Attention in Later Development among Preterm Children: Linkages between Early and Middle Childhood.
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Smith, Lars; Ulvund, Stein Erik – Social Development, 2003
This longitudinal study examined the hypothesis that two different types of joint-attention skills were related to verbal and nonverbal IQ measures through middle childhood. Subjects were infants born preterm and tested at 13 months and at 8 years. Findings provide support for the hypothesis that the initiation of joint attention makes a unique…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attention, Attention Control, Children
Do Children's Attention Processes Mediate the Link between Family Predictors and School Readiness?
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Developmental Psychology, 2003
Assessed the role of attention processes as mediators between family environment and school readiness, analyzing data from 1,002 children and their families participating in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Found that sustained attention partially accounted for the link between family environment and achievement and language outcomes.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, Attention Control, Behavior Problems