Moving to Capture Children's Attention: Developing a Methodology for Measuring Visuomotor Attention.

ABSTRACT: Attention underpins many activities integral to a child's development. However, methodological limitations currently make large-scale assessment of children's attentional skill impractical, costly and lacking in ecological validity. Consequently we developed a measure of 'Visual Motor Attention' (VMA)-a construct defined as the ability to sustain and adapt visuomotor behaviour in response to task-relevant visual information. In a series of experiments, we evaluated the capability of our method to measure attentional processes and their contributions in guiding visuomotor behaviour. Experiment 1 established the method's core features (ability to track stimuli moving on a tablet-computer screen with a hand-held stylus) and demonstrated its sensitivity to principled manipulations in adults' a

SUBMITTER: Hill LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4951138 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature