The clinical neuropsychology of attention in school-aged children.
100 children from the north-east of England, aged between 7 and 13 years of age, completed an assessment of intellectual ability and an attention battery based on the work of Mirsky, Anthony, Duncan, Ahearn, & Kellam (1991). Factor analysis was generally supportive of the Mirsky et al. (1991) model. Replication of the adult model produced the same four factors: sustain, encode, focus-execute and shift. Replication of the child model produced a three-factor model in which the encode and focus-execute factors combined. An extended model resulted in the introduction of a new factor labelled errors of processing. The scores on attention factors were found to have a reasonable level of independence from intellectual ability.
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Newcastle City Health Trust, United Kingdom.
D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004739:England; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012494:Sampling Studies; D014888:Wechsler Scales