Development of attentional disengagement in typically developing children and children with elevated levels of attentional deficits.

ABSTRACT: The ability to flexibly disengage and shift attention allows us to successfully interact with our environment and develops across infancy, childhood and adolescence. The aim of the present study was to investigate how attentional disengagement abilities develop. We leveraged a robust longitudinal dataset of the Gap-Overlap task of the YOUth cohort with over 3500 children tested at one or more timepoints to track the maturation of attentional control across infancy, childhood and adolescence (5 months, 10 months, 3 years, 6 years, 9 years, 12 years). While we replicated established group-level developmental patterns showing progressive improvement in saccadic reaction times, the time between the appearance of the target and the initiation of the saccade, our findings revealed individual var

SUBMITTER: de Zwart B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12540621 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature