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Developmental Change in the Nature of Attention Allocation in a Dual Task.

Younger children have more difficulty in sharing attention between two concurrent tasks than do older participants, but in addition to this developmental change, we documented changes in the nature of attention sharing. We studied children 6-8 and 10-14 years old and college students (in all, 104 wo...

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Published in:Developmental Psychology Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 33 - 47
Main Authors: Cowan, Nelson, AuBuchon, Angela M., Gilchrist, Amanda L., Blume, Christopher L., Boone, Alexander P., Saults, J. Scott
Format: Article
Published: American Psychological Association Jan2021
Subjects:
Memory
Child development
Age distribution
Task performance
Cognition
Aging
Thought & thinking
Attention in children
Short-term memory
Attention in adolescence
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