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Perez-Edgar, Koraly; Fox, Nathan A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2005
Seven-year-olds completed a Posner cued attention task, under both neutral and affectively charged conditions. Compared to the traditional (affect-neutral) Posner task, performance in the affective Posner task was marked by dramatic decreases in reaction times (RTs), an increase in errors, an increased validity effect (difference in RTs to the…
Descriptors: Cues, Individual Characteristics, Attention, Cognitive Processes