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Zupan, Zorana, Blagrove, Elisabeth and Watson, Derrick G. (2018) Learning to ignore : the development of time-based visual attention in children. Developmental Psychology, 54 (12). pp. 2248-2264. doi:10.1037/dev0000582 ISSN 0012-1649.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000582
Abstract
Adults can ignore old and prioritize newly arriving visual stimuli, enabling optimal goal-directed search (visual marking; Watson & Humphreys, 1997). However, the ability to use time of appearance to enhance visual search is currently absent in work on attentional development in children. Experiment 1 examined children’s (6-, 8-, and 12-year-olds) and adults’ ability to ignore old and prioritize new stimuli and the relationship of this ability to executive functions. Experiment 2 examined whether the components involved in ignoring old items (encoding and maintenance) change across age, by presenting old stimuli for relatively short (500 ms), medium (1,000 ms) or long (1,500 ms) durations. On average, all age groups could ignore old items presented for 1,000 ms to some degree, however 25% of 6-year-olds were not able to prioritize new items effectively. No relationship was observed between the development of this ability and measures of executive function. On average, all age groups could ignore old items presented for short durations, however, 6-year-olds had difficulty ignoring stimuli presented for long durations. The findings suggest that the ability to ignore old items in order to prioritize search through new information is relatively weak in 6-year-olds, especially when ignoring items over longer durations. Furthermore, the findings indicate that the encoding and maintenance components involved in prioritizing new items might follow distinct developmental trajectories. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Attention in children, Inhibition, Child development -- Testing, Visual perception | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Developmental Psychology | ||||||||
Publisher: | American Psychological Association | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0012-1649 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 54 | ||||||||
Number: | 12 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 2248-2264 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1037/dev0000582 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Re-use Statement: | "©American Psychological Association, 2018. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. Please do not copy or cite without author's permission. The final article is available, upon publication, at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000582 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 May 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 November 2018 | ||||||||
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