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Peer reviewedGeffen, Gina; Sexton, Michael A. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Focused and divided auditory attention were studied in 7- and 10-year-old children. (BD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Auditory Stimuli, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedCowan, Nelson; Nugent, Lara D.; Elliott, Emily M.; Saults, J. Scott – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Examined persistence of sensory memory by studying developmental differences in recall of attended and ignored lists of digits for second-graders, fifth-graders, and adults. Found developmental increase in the persistence of memory only for the final item in an ignored list, which is the item for which sensory memory is thought to be the most…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention, Auditory Perception
PDF pending restorationWartella, Ellen – 1978
A total of 100 third and ninth grade students participated in a study to determine how children of different ages perceptually segment a continuing behavior sequence presented on a television program. The children were shown a short segment from a motion picture on a videotape viewer. Following the viewing, the children completed unitizing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Peer reviewedMiller, Leon K. – Child Development, 1973
One question prompting the present research concerned the relation between performance under tachistoscopic'' conditions where exposure durations are too brief to permit active overt visual search, and performance when overt search is possible. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Eye Fixations, Information Processing, Letters (Alphabet)
