Processing Time Declines Exponentially during Childhood and Adolescence.

Kail, Robert

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Publication Date: 1991

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Processing Time Declines Exponentially during Childhood and Adolescence.

Kail, Robert

Developmental Psychology, v27 n2 p259-66 Mar 1991

Children and adults were tested on six speeded perceptual-motor and cognitive tasks, including a (1) response time task; (2) button tapping task; (3) pegboard task; (4) coding task; (5) picture matching task; and (6) mental addition task. Age-related change in processing time on most of these tasks was described by a single exponential function. (BC)

Descriptors: Addition, Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Exponents (Mathematics), Mental Computation, Perceptual Development, Perceptual Motor Learning, Reaction Time, Time Factors (Learning)

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