Visual search, perception, and visual-motor skill in "healthy" children born at 27-32 weeks' gestation
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Premature children without any clinical disability exhibit a cluster of visual-motor impairments relating to the maintenance of attention and visual-motor coordination. These defects persist into middle childhood. However, prematurity hardly affects the visual form perception in these children. A study on school-age children born at 27-32 gestational weeks reveals overall normal performance on pediatric screening tests. However, subjects take longer time to point to the missing arc on the display of an annulus, and often fail to find targets in a complex visual search task.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 1997
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Gender differences in advanced mathematical problem solving
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It has been shown by Gallagher that many problems on the Scholastic Assessment Test-Mathematics (SAT-M) could be classed as either conventional or unconventional. Gender differences are evident in success patterns and strategy use on both problems. Expanding on this work, juniors and seniors in high school solved mathematics problems from versions of the SAT-M, reporting on strategies used to derive answers. Male students were more likely to successfully match strategies to problems characteristics than female students.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 2000
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A production task evaluation of individual differences in mental addition skill development: internal and external validation of chronometric models
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Individual differences in the apparently calculative process underlying the numerical facility are related to addition efficiency and the rate of information processing. The internal and external validation of chronometric models of mental addition processing is studied through a production task paradigm for obtaining reaction times to mental addition stimuli. Individual difference relations between strategy choice parameters and criterion-related measures of ability are also studied.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 1995
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