Selective attention and attention switching: towards a unified developmental approach

Selective attention and attention switching: towards a unified developmental approach.

We review and relate two literatures on the development of attention in children: one concerning flexible attention switching and the other concerning selective attention. The first is a growing literature on preschool children's performances in an attention-switching task indicating that children become more flexible in their attentional control during the preschool years. The second literatur...

A developmental study of visual selective attention.

Effectiveness of Music Therapy on Sustained Attention and Selective Attention in Children with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of music therapy on sustained attention and selective attention in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The research method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population included all children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder who referred to psycholog...

Selective attention to perceptual dimensions and switching between dimensions.

In the present experiments, the question being addressed was whether switching attention between perceptual dimensions and selective attention to dimensions are processes that compete over a common resource? Attention to perceptual dimensions is usually studied by requiring participants to ignore a never-relevant dimension. Selection failure (Garner's Interference, GI) is indicated by poorer pe...

The neurophysiology of intersensory selective attention and task switching

The neurophysiology of intersensory selective attention and taskswitching by Jeremy William Murphy Advisors: John J. Foxe, Ph.D. and Sophie Molholm Ph.D. Our ability to selectively attend to certain aspects of the world and ignore others is fundamental to our day-to-day lives. The need for selective attention stems from capacity limitations inherent in our perceptual and cognitive processing ar...