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Pearson, Deborah A.; Lane, David M. – Child Development, 1990
Children of 8 and 11 years and college students were tested for reorientation of visual attention to a target following a cue. The first, but not the second, experiment showed an interaction between distance of target from fixation and stimulus onset asynchrony. The second experiment suggested children can orient attention through valid, neutral,…
Descriptors: Children, College Students, Cues, Developmental Continuity
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Montgomery, Derek E.; Bach, Leslie M.; Moran, Christy – Child Development, 1998
Three studies examined children's understanding of looking behavior in revealing another's desired goal. Found that 6-year olds and adults, but not 4-year olds, consistently regarded prolonged looking as a more important cue than glancing or inadvertent touching of the protagonist's goal. Results suggest that development is characterized by…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Child Behavior, Child Development