Why Are Children so Distractible? Development of Attention and Motor Control from Childhood to Adulthood

Autor/inn/en	Hoyer, Roxane S.; Elshafei, Hesham; Hemmerlin, Julie; Bouet, Romain; Bidet-Caulet, Aurélie
Titel	Why Are Children so Distractible? Development of Attention and Motor Control from Childhood to Adulthood
Quelle	In: Child Development, 92 (2021) 4, (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hoyer, Roxane S.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13561
Schlagwörter	Child Development; Psychomotor Skills; Motor Development; Attention Control; Developmental Stages; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Socioeconomic Status; Conceptual Tempo; Maturity (Individuals); Adolescents; Young Children; Foreign Countries; Adults; Correlation; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kindesentwicklung; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Motorische Entwicklung; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Reifung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Korrelation; Frankreich
Abstract	Distractibility is the propensity to behaviorally react to irrelevant information. Although children are more distractible the younger they are, the precise contribution of attentional and motor components to distractibility and their developmental trajectories have not been characterized yet. We used a new behavioral paradigm to identify the developmental dynamics of components contributing to distractibility in a large cohort of French participants balanced, between age groups, in gender and socioeconomic status (N = 352; age: 6-25). Results reveal that each measure of these components, namely voluntary attention, distraction, impulsivity, and motor control, present a distinct maturational timeline. In young children, increased distractibility is mostly the result of reduced sustained attention capacities and enhanced distraction, whereas in teenagers, it is the result of decreased motor control and increased impulsivity. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01