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The development of and interaction among alerting, orienting, and executive attention in children
Jennifer C Mullane1, Michael A Lawrence1, Penny V Corkum1
1a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience , Dalhousie University , Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada.
Abstract:
A sex-balanced sample (N = 96) of children from age 6.5 to age 12.5 completed a modified Attention Network Test. Across these ages, we found evidence for developmental changes to alerting and executive control but stable orienting. Additionally, we found that the youngest members of our sample manifested an interaction between alerting and executive control that is opposite to that typically found in adults; a reversal that diminishes with age to achieve the adult pattern by the older end of the age range of our sample.
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