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Peer reviewedKirchner, Grace L.; Knopf, Irwin J. – Child Development, 1974
Second grade children, divided into high and low achievement groups, were tested on a visual vigilance task in which stimuli occurred 24 times in 30 minutes. High achievers responded correctly more often. (ST)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Attention Span, Elementary School Students, Laboratory Experiments
Peer reviewedJohnson, Mark H.; Tucker, Leslie A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Discusses changes occurring in two-, four-, and six-month-old infants' visual attention span, through a series of experiments examining their ability to orient to peripheral visual stimuli. The results obtained were consistent with the hypothesis that infants get faster with age in shifting attention to a spatial location. (AA)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Attention Span, Child Development
