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SUMMARY:(How) does attentional control matter? - Dr. Gaia Scerif\, Univers
 ity of Oxford
DTSTART:20130219T130000Z
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CONTACT:Nik Darshane
DESCRIPTION:Attentional control plays a crucial role in biasing incoming i
 nformation in favour of what is relevant to further processing\, action se
 lection and long-term task goals. Much of the work investigating attention
  has focused on adult cognitive systems\, but unique insights can come fro
 m understanding the mechanisms and consequences of attention development. 
 Here I aim to review three distinct but complementary lines of work. First
 \, studying failures of attentional control over developmental time has el
 ucidated their cascading effects ranging from behavioural outcomes to the 
 acquisition of domain-specific skills. Second\, and in turn\, understandin
 g the adverse effects of attentional difficulties requires studying how at
 tentional control gates learning over typical development. To this second 
 aim\, colleagues and I have assessed the impact of distinct aspects of att
 entional control on concurrent and longitudinal abilities related to basic
  literacy and numeracy in preschoolers and the early primary school years.
  Finally\, we have explored whether attentional constraints on learning co
 uld be mediated by interactions with memory by studying attentional contro
 l effects on encoding and maintenance in visual STM and WM. These attentio
 nal constraints cast light on the unfolding relationships between domain-g
 eneral and domain-specific processes over development and have implication
 s for our understanding of adult attentive observers.
LOCATION:PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
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