A pupillometric study of developmental and individual differences in cognitive effort in visual word recognition.

ABSTRACT: Throughout the history of modern psychology, the neural basis of cognitive performance, and particularly its efficiency, has been assumed to be an essential determinant of developmental and individual differences in a wide range of human behaviors. Here, we examine one aspect of cognitive efficiency-cognitive effort, using pupillometry to examine differences in word reading among adults (N = 34) and children (N = 34). The developmental analyses confirmed that children invested more effort in reading than adults, as indicated by larger and sustained pupillary responses. The within-age (individual difference) analyses comparing faster (N = 10) and slower (N = 10) performers revealed that in both age groups, the faster readers demonstrated accelerated pupillary responses compared to slower re

SUBMITTER: Shechter A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9232497 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature