Trial reportJournal of experimental child psychology2017
Sustained selective attention predicts flexible switching in preschoolers.
Trial report in Journal of experimental child psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Discovery of disrupted sustained attention and altered functional connectivity in far-from-onset Huntington's disease gene-expanded young adults.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Outsourcing cognition: the psychological costs of AI-era convenience.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The shifting shelf task: a new, non-verbal measure for attentional set shifting.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function.Developmental science · 2023Article
- Pupillometry as a Window into Young Children's Sustained Attention.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
- Dimensional label learning contributes to the development of executive functions.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Cognitive flexibility in younger and older children who stutter.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Understanding Children's Attention to Dental Caries through Eye-Tracking.Caries research · 2022Article
- Dimensional attention as a mechanism of executive function: Integrating flexibility, selectivity, and stability.Cognition · 2019Article
- Dropout from Court-Mandated Intervention Programs for Intimate Partner Violence Offenders: The Relevance of Alcohol Misuse and Cognitive Impairments.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Attentional fluctuations in preschoolers: Direct and indirect relations with task accuracy, academic readiness, and school performance.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Stability and flexibility are fundamental to an intelligent cognitive system. Here, we examined the relationship between stability in selective attention and explicit control of flexible attention. Preschoolers were tested on the Dimension Preference (DP) task, which measures the stability of selective attention to an implicitly primed dimension, and the Dimension Change Card Sort (DCCS) task, which measures flexible attention switching between dimensions. Children who successfully switched on the DCCS task were more likely than those who perseverated to sustain attention to the primed dimension on the DP task across trials. We propose that perseverators have less stable attention and distribute their attention between dimensions, whereas switchers can successfully stabilize attention to individual dimensions and, thus, show more enduring priming effects. Flexible attention may emerge, in part, from implicit processes that stabilize attention even in tasks not requiring switching.
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