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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
