title: The development of and interaction among alerting, orienting, and executive attention in children.
abstract: A sex-balanced sample (N = 96) of children from age 6.5 to age 12.5 completed a modified Attention Network Test. Across these ages, we found evidence for developmental changes to alerting and executive control but stable orienting. Additionally, we found that the youngest members of our sample manifested an interaction between alerting and executive control that is opposite to that typically found in adults; a reversal that diminishes with age to achieve the adult pattern by the older end of the age range of our sample.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience , Dalhousie University , Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada.
authors.forename: Jennifer C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Mullane
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience , Dalhousie University , Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada.
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lawrence
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience , Dalhousie University , Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada.
authors.forename: Penny V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Corkum
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience , Dalhousie University , Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada.
authors.forename: Raymond M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience , Dalhousie University , Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada.|b IWK Health Centre , Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada.
authors.forename: Elizabeth N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003463:Cues; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Alerting Attention; Children; Development; Executive attention; Orienting attention