title: The speed of information processing of 9- to 13-year-old intellectually gifted children.
abstract: In general, intellectually gifted children perform better than non-gifted children across many domains. The present validation study investigated the speed with which intellectually gifted children process information. 184 children, ages 9 to 13 years old (91 gifted, M age = 10.9 yr., SD = 1.8; 93 non-gifted children, M age = 11.0 yr., SD = 1.7) were tested individually on three information processing tasks: an inspection time task, a choice reaction time task, an abstract matching task. Intellectually gifted children outperformed their non-gifted peers on all three tasks obtaining shorter reaction time and doing so with greater accuracy. The findings supported the validity of the information processing speed in identifying intellectually gifted children.
authors: Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
authors: Xiaoju
authors: X
authors: Duan
authors: Zhou
authors: Z
authors: Dan
authors: Jiannong
authors: J
authors: Shi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002672:Child, Gifted / Q000523:psychology*; D002681:China; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000639:trends; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results