Alerting, Orienting, and Executive Attention: Developmental Properties and Sociodemographic Correlates in an Epidemiological Sample of Young, Urban Children
Top Cited Papers
- 15 September 2004
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Child Development
- Vol. 75 (5) , 1373-1386
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00746.x
Abstract
A computerized test of preparedness for effortful processing (alerting attention), response to orienting cues (orienting attention), and response to the interference of competing demands (executive attention) was administered to a diverse sample of 249 children (47% female, 4.96 to 7.27 years) to assess developmental properties and sociodemographic correlates of task performance. Older children and socially advantaged children demonstrated greater proficiency in overall accuracy and speed of responding. Boys and socially advantaged children improved more in response to alerting cues. Older children improved more in response to orienting cues. Older children, socially advantaged children, African American, and Hispanic children resisted the interference of competing demands better. Findings are discussed in the context of developmental and sociodemographic factors relevant to attention and executive functions.Keywords
This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
- I. The Development of Executive FunctionMonographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2003
- Do children's attention processes mediate the link between family predictors and school readiness?Developmental Psychology, 2003
- Testing the Efficiency and Independence of Attentional NetworksJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2002
- School readiness: Integrating cognition and emotion in a neurobiological conceptualization of children's functioning at school entry.American Psychologist, 2002
- Family processes as pathways from income to young children's development.Developmental Psychology, 2002
- Can poverty get under your skin? Basal cortisol levels and cognitive function in children from low and high socioeconomic statusDevelopment and Psychopathology, 2001
- Developing mechanisms of self-regulationDevelopment and Psychopathology, 2000
- Effortful control in early childhood: Continuity and change, antecedents, and implications for social development.Developmental Psychology, 2000
- Inhibitory Control in Young Children and Its Role in Emerging InternalizationChild Development, 1996
- Economic Stress, Coercive Family Process, and Developmental Problems of AdolescentsChild Development, 1994