title: Development of interest and enjoyment in adolescence. Part I. Attentional capacities.
abstract: The first part of this two-part article argues that significant changes in both the capacity and the content of attention emerge in adolescence. Part I reviews evidence from behavioral and biological studies that the capacity for interested attention develops from late childhood into adolescence.
authors.affiliation: the National Institute of Mental Health, 20205, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hamilton