Visual attention in the first years: Typical development and developmental disorders

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 589-595

  Atkinson, Janette ^a   Braddick, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL CONTROL; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN SYNDROME; EARLY CHILDHOOD ATTENTION BATTERY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SUSTAINED ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84862311615     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2012.04294.x     Document Type: Review

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