The Wandering Mind of A Pat DeSabato. This week, we examined attention as it progresses over the course of a lifetime, from childhood and the associated ADHD to senior citizenship and the inevitable resulting senility.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Attention Through the Aging Process. For the most part I believe the researches who lead the three studies for this week were very keen about keeping track of and trying to control for some of these differences. The first study examined how children fair on attention demanding tasks. The researchers looked at .

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What we can learn about attention from studying our grandparents. I think there have been great strides in developing tests adjusted for children, some of which are touched upon in the articles for today. Another difficulty with studying the whole population is that the whole population is not as available for psychological studies as young college students are. Looked at participants from ages under 20 to over 77 and their performance on the SART to examine the relationship of age on .

If we are going to begin to understand differences in attention across the lifespan, it seems productive to start with the development of sustained attention in young children. In order to gain a better understanding of attentional development, we should broaden our lens of focus from just children to participants from all age ranges. Interestingly, while SART errors and Response Speed decrease linearly w.