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Children Cautious Strategy and Variable Maturation Time Window for Responding in a Visual Search Task
Description
Present study evaluates the changes and developmental trajectories of the attentional serial visual search
and pre-attentional parallel search (pop-out) in situations in which a fast response is required. The hypothesis
of present study are 1) that pre-attentional selection mechanisms develop before than serial attentional
processes; 2) in the most difficult tasks, children prefer to adopt a non-responding strategy to an
impulsive response patters; and 3) in speeded difficult discrimination tasks young children arrives to the
criteria of correct performance in a broad temporal window. The results showed an inverse relationship
between the age and the RTs and the different type of errors. For the present set of stimuli which produces
an overcrowded scene and required a fast response, the behavioural trend of normal children is to the
non-response pattern rather than to impulsive incorrect responses pattern. It can be suggested that young
normal children present a broad temporal window to obtain the perceptual, motor and/or cognitive skills
needed for responding adequately in a fast speeded discrimination task.
Abstract
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad PSI2010- 17523Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- https://idus.us.es/handle/11441/59930
- URN
- urn:oai:idus.us.es:11441/59930
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