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Publication Date: 2005-Sep
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Development of Attentional and Oculomotor Control
Kramer, Arthur F.; Gonzalez de Sather, Jessica C. M.; Cassavaugh, Nicholas D.
Developmental Psychology, v41 n5 p760-772 Sep 2005
The present study was conducted to examine the development of attentional and oculomotor control. More specifically, the authors were interested in the development of the ability to inhibit an incorrect but prepotent response to a salient distractor. Participants, who ranged in age from 8 to 25 years, performed 3 different eye movement tasks: a prosaccade, an antisaccade, and an oculomotor capture task. The time required to initiate a saccade decreased with age across all 3 tasks. Consistent with previous reports, accuracy was relatively age invariant in the prosaccade task. Performance improved with age, asymptoting at 16 years in the antisaccade task. It is interesting to note that despite the superficial similarity of the antisaccade and oculomotor capture tasks, performance was relatively age invariant in the latter. These results are discussed in terms of developmental differences in the interaction of goal-directed and stimulus-driven processes in the control of attention and action.
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Attention Control, Testing, Developmental Tasks, Task Analysis, Performance, Predictor Variables, Age Differences, Youth
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