Age-related differences in reaction time task performance in young children / Kiselev S., Espy K.A., Sheffield T. // Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. - 2009. - V. 102, l. 2. - P. 150-166.

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00220965
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Abstract:
Performance of reaction time (RT) tasks was investigated in young children and adults to test the hypothesis that age-related differences in processing speed supersede a "global" mechanism and are a function of specific differences in task demands and processing requirements. The sample consisted of 54 4-year-olds, 53 5-year-olds, 59 6-year-olds, and 35 adults from Russia. Using the regression approach pioneered by Brinley and the transformation method proposed by Madden and colleagues and Ridderinkhoff and van der Molen, age-related differences in processing speed differed among RT tasks with varying demands. In particular, RTs differed between children and adults on tasks that required response suppression, discrimination of color or spatial orientation, reversal of contingencies of previously learned stimulus-response rules, and greater stimulus-response complexity. Relative costs of these RT task differences were larger than predicted by the global difference hypothesis except for response suppression. Among young children, age-related differences larger than predicted by the global difference hypothesis were evident when tasks required color or spatial orientation discrimination and stimulus-response rule complexity, but not for response suppression or reversal of stimulus-response contingencies. Process-specific, age-related differences in processing speed that support heterochronicity of brain development during childhood were revealed. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Author keywords:
Preschool children; Processing speed
Index keywords:
adult; age; article; child; cognition; decision making; discrimination learning; female; human; male; methodology; pattern recognition; perceptive discrimination; photostimulation; physiology; prescho
DOI:
10.1016/j.jecp.2008.02.002
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Affiliations Department of Clinical Psychology, Ural State University, Yekaterinburg, 620083, Russian Federation; Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, United States
Author Keywords Preschool children; Processing speed
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Correspondence Address Kiselev, S.; Department of Clinical Psychology, Ural State University, Yekaterinburg, 620083, Russian Federation; email: eskisa@rambler.ru
CODEN JECPA
PubMed ID 18359494
Language of Original Document English
Abbreviated Source Title J. Exp. Child Psychol.
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