@article{ref1,
title="Visual attention in a visual-haptic, cross-modal matching task in children and adults",
journal="Perceptual and motor skills",
year="2015",
author="Coté, Carol Ann",
volume="120",
number="2",
pages="381-396",
abstract="-Visual fixation patterns were analyzed to gain insight into developmental changes in attention allocation in a cross-modal task. Two patterns that have been associated with increased task difficulty, gaze aversion and fixation duration, were recorded using an eye-tracker. In this exploratory study, 37 elementary age children (M age 7-10 yr.) and 23 undergraduates engaged in visual-only and haptic-visual shape-matching tasks. Theoretical assumptions underlying this study are that children have greater limitations on attention capacity compared to adults, and that a task presented in the cross-modal condition would pose special demands on this capacity. A 2 × 2 (uni- or cross-modal × age group) repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze both gaze aversion and average fixation duration. Children averted gaze significantly more during the cross-modal condition, supporting the idea that children use gaze aversion as an attention-shifting mechanism. Mean fixation duration increased for both groups in the cross-modal condition. Due to the small number and limited age range of the children as well as the limited number of task items, interpretations are made with caution.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0031-5125",
doi="10.2466/22.PMS.120v13x9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/22.PMS.120v13x9"
}