title: Charting the developmental trajectories of attention and executive function in Chinese school-aged children.
abstract: Attention is a complex domain that has reawakened research interest in recent years. There are relatively few studies that have examined age-related changes across different attention subcomponents, such as selection, maintenance, and control, using large samples covering a wide age range. The present study assessed performance in 466 participants in order to identify the ages at which mature performance was reached across differing attention subcomponents. Furthermore, we investigated whether the nature of the attentional demands or task difficulty predicted the age at which stable levels of performance were reached. The results supported the former rather than the latter alternative.
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jian-Ying
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Zhan
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wilding
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cornish
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.forename: Chun-Hong
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Yan-Xia
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Kang
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Annette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karmiloff-Smith
authors.forename: Zheng-Yan
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002681:China; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012931:Social Environment