To the extent that selective attention skills are relevant for academic foundations and
amenable to training, they represent an important focus for the field of education. Here …

Highlights•Multiple distributed neural networks support selective sustained
attention.•Selective sustained attention is a developmental foundation for executive …

A large body of evidence supports the importance of focused attention for encoding and task
performance. Yet young children with immature regulation of focused attention are often …

Selective sustained attention is vital for higher order cognition. Although endogenous and
exogenous factors influence selective sustained attention, assessment of the degree to …

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 …

This study investigated developmental differences in children's performance on a popular
video game. Second-and fifth-graders played a video game for ten minutes and then were …

The ability to attend and to exercise cognitive control are vital aspects of human adaptability.
Several studies indicate that attention training using computer based exercises can lead to …

Two experiments investigated the effects of video game expertise on divided visual attention
in college students. Divided attention was measured by using response time to targets of …

Visual attention functions as a filter to select environmental information for learning and
memory, making it the first step in the eventual cascade of thought and action systems. Here …

Selective attention is the gateway to perceptual processing, learning, and memory and is a
skill honed through extensive experience. However, little research has focused on how …