The development of attention is critical for the young child's competence in dealing with the
demands of everyday life. Here we review evidence from infants and preschool children …

Abstract Changes in attention are among the most important cognitive shifts associated with
aging, with implications for maintenance of vocational competencies, participation in social …

Recent research in attention has involved three networks of anatomical areas that carry out
the functions of orienting, alerting and executive control (including conflict monitoring). There …

Self-regulation has been a central concept in developmental psychology and in the study of
psychopathologies. Fonagy and Target (2002, p. 307) see self-regulation as “the key …

Children aged 7–17years and adults aged 18–22years were tested on three aspects of
visual attention: the ability to distribute visual attention across the field to search for a target …

Abstract Changes in sustained attention, attentional selectivity, and attentional capacity were
examined in a sample of 113 participants between the ages of 12 and 75. To measure …

Data on the development of the attentional systems remain scarce. We used structural and
event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate differences in the neural …

Gains and losses in visual search were studied across the life span in a representative
sample of 298 individuals from 6 to 89 years of age. Participants searched for single-feature …

We address the problem of estimating image difficulty defined as the human response time
for solving a visual search task. We collect human annotations of image difficulty for the …

Multiple-object tracking involves simultaneously tracking positions of a number of target-
items as they move among distractors. The standard version of the task poses special …