Publisher Summary There is a major developmental shift in the nature of the stimulus
variables that control attending behavior. This shift is proposed as an important contributor to …

Previous research suggests a developmental lag between producing a strategy of selective
attention and benefiting from it. This aspect of the transitional period during strategy …

Developmental change in how children gather information for further processing is a
fundamental component of cognitive development. As Gibson (1988, p. 7) …

Allocation of attention was examined on a selective attention task in which some items were
relevant (ie, their locations should be remembered) and some were irrelevant. 100 4-and 5 …

A visual search task was used to assess developmental changes in children's selective
attention to specified portions of a visual display. Seven-, nine-, and twelve-year-olds …

The moderating effect of perceptual load on visual selective attention was examined in 2
studies. In Study 1, children and young adults searched displays of varying set size flanked …

The experiment was designed to identify processes underlying a developmental trend
toward greater selectivity of attention. Second graders and sixth graders compared some …

This chapter reviews recent work on visual attention in children. The review is not intended
to be comprehensive, but rather to provide a framework in which questions concerning the …

This paper is a review of recent research on the developmental course of attentional
processes. Developmental differences in the ability to ignore irrelevant information have …

A model of selective attention is proposed which contains a number of properties. First,
stimuli which are irrelevant to the subjects' task can be analyzed to semantic levels …