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Direct linkHood, Bruce M.; Wilson, Alice; Dyson, Sally – Developmental Science, 2006
Children who could overcome the gravity error on Hood's (1995) tubes task were tested in a condition where they had to monitor two falling balls. This condition significantly impaired search performance with the majority of mistakes being gravity errors. In a second experiment, the effect of monitoring two balls was compared in the tubes task and…
Descriptors: Attention, Inhibition, Physics, Scientific Concepts
