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A Technique for Investigating Attention in Children.
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Kraut, Alan G. – 1977
This paper discusses three studies which examined the interaction of dimensional dominance with the attentional components of alertness and encoding. In Study I, twenty 6- and 7-year-olds observed thirty 3-second exposures of a color, then participated in a 40-trial choice reaction time task in which the familiarized color and a novel color served…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Cues, Dimensional Preference
Children's Ability to Integrate Class Information.
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Pien, Diana – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
Coordination and integration of class information was examined using a multidimensional similarity judgment task in which four- and nine-year-old children rated the similarity of pairs of stimuli sharing either one or two attribute values. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Visual Search by Children: The Effect of Background Variation and the Use of Visual Cues
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Day, Mary Carol – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
A visual search task was used to assess developmental changes in elementary school children's selective attention to specified portions of a visual display. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Cues
Dimension Preference and Component Selection: A Comparison of Alternative Methods for Measuring Children's Attention to Stimulus Attributes.
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Lipps, Leann E. T. – 1973
To investigate two measures which have been used to assess children's attention to stimulus dimensions, component selection, and dimension preference, both measures were administered to 38 3 1/2 to 5-year-olds and 20 5- to 6 1/2-year-olds. Seven to ten days after the dimension preference task was given. the component selection measure was…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Individual Differences in Infant Fixation Duration: Dominance of Global versus Local Stimulus Properties.
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Colombo, John; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1995
Investigates the dominance of global versus local visual properties in four-month-old infants as a function of individual differences in fixation duration. Suggests that long-looking infants process visual information more slowly than short-looking infants, and there may be qualitative differences in the manner in which the two groups of infants…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning
Developmental Changes in Hemispheric Specialization for Tactual Processing in Very Young Children: Evidence from Cross-Modal Transfer.
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Rose, Susan A. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Determines whether early hemispheric differences exist in tactual processing by testing infants and preschoolers on six cross-modal tasks. Results are the first to demonstrate a left-hand superiority for information processing in children as young as two years. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Attention, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference
The Decalage from the Perspective of a Perceptual Salience Account of Developmental Change.
Odom, Richard D. – 1977
This paper examines the concept of decalage from two cognitive-change positions (structures of logical thought and attentional and verbal mediators) and proposes an alternative explanation for decalage from a perceptual-change point of view. The term decalage is used to summarize the relation between differences in performance of various age…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Children, Cognitive Development