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• Enns, James T

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The development of attention : research and theory [electronic resource]

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• Elsevier Books AutoHoldings

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• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Front Cover; The Development of Attention: Research and Theory; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Section I: Attention in Infancy; Chapter 1. Attention in Infancy and the Prediction of Cognitive Capacities in Childhood; Chapter 2. The Role Of Motion in Infants' Perception of Occlusion; Chapter 3. Regulatory Mechanisms in Infant Development; Chapter 4. Temporal Structure of Stimulation Maintains Infant Attention; Chapter 5. Rules for Listening in Infancy; Chapter 6. Selectivity and Early Infant Vocalization; Section II: Attention in Childhood
• Chapter 7. Relations between Components of Visual AttentionChapter 8. More Evidence for a Common, Central Constraint on Speed of Processing; Chapter 9 . Texture Segregation in Young Children; Chapter 10. Evidence for Efficient Visual Selectivity in Children; Chapter 11. Covert Orienting in Young Children; Chapter 12. The Development of Attentional Control Mechanisms; Chapter 13. Peripheral Vision in Young Children: Implications for the Study of Visual Attention; Chapter 14. Cognitive Development and the Growth of Capacity: Issues in NeoPiagetian Theory
• Chapter 15. Attention and Memory in Context-Independent and Context-Interactive SituationsChapter 16. Attentional Capacity and Children's Memory Strategy Use; Chapter 17. The Role of Labels in Directing Children's Attention; Section III: Attention in Special Populations; Chapter 18. Reorientation in Hyperactive and Non-Hyperactive Children: Evidence for Developmentally Immature Attention; Chapter 19. A Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Studying Attention Deficits; Chapter 20. Attention and Hyperactivity; Chapter 21. Autism: A Developmental Spatial Neglect Syndrome?
• Chapter 22. Psychopathy and AttentionSection IV: Attention in the Aged; Chapter 23. Aging and the Deployment of Visual Attention; Chapter 24 . Aging, Feature Integration, and Visual Selective Attention; Chapter 25. Developmental Changes in Attention and Visual Search throughout Adulthood; Chapter 26. Adult Age Differences in Visual Search: The Role of Non-Attentional Processes; Chapter 27. Attentional Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias; Author Index; Subject Index
• This volume presents an up-to-date review of developmental aspects of human attention by leading researchers and theorists. The papers included in the first section consider the ways in which newborns are pretuned to visual, auditory, linguistic, and social features of their environment, as well as how selectivity to these features changes in the first year of life. The following section examines properties of the visual and auditory world that are attention-getting for children. Developmental increases in capacity and strategy are also examined in this section through the study of perception,
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