| Differential development of visual attention skills in school-age children. | |
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PMID: 19836409 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Children aged 7-17 years and adults aged 18-22 years were tested on three aspects of visual attention: the ability to distribute visual attention across the field to search for a target, the time required for attention to recover from being directed towards a target, and the number of objects to which attention can be simultaneously allocated. The data suggested different developmental trajectories for these components of visual attention within the same set of participants. This suggests that, to some extent, spatial, temporal and object-based attentional processes are subserved by different neural resources which develop at different rate. In addition, participants who played action games showed enhanced performance on all aspects of attention tested as compared to non-gamers. These findings reveal a potential facilitation of development of attentional skills in children who are avid players of action video games. As these games are predominantly drawing a male audience, young girls are at risk of under-performing on such tests, calling for a careful control of video game usage when assessing gender differences in attentional tasks. |
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Authors:
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Matthew W G Dye; Daphne Bavelier |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2009-10-30 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Vision research Volume: 50 ISSN: 1878-5646 ISO Abbreviation: Vision Res. Publication Date: 2010 Feb |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-02-17 Completed Date: 2011-05-06 Revised Date: 2011-09-26 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0417402 Medline TA: Vision Res Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 452-9 Citation Subset: IM |
Copyright Information:
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Copyright 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
Affiliation:
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Department of Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820-6206, USA. mdye@illinois.edu |
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Adolescent Adult Analysis of Variance Attention / physiology* Child Child Development / physiology* Female Humans Male Perceptual Masking Photic Stimulation / methods Psychomotor Performance / physiology* Reaction Time / physiology Task Performance and Analysis Video Games / psychology Visual Perception* Young Adult |
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EY016880/EY/NEI NIH HHS; R01 EY016880-05S1/EY/NEI NIH HHS |
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