AUTHOR=Tao Ting , Wang Ligang , Fan Chunlei , Gao Wenbin , Shi Jiannong TITLE=Latent Factors in Attention Emerge from 9 Years of Age among Elementary School Children JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=8 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01725 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01725 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

We explored the development of attention among elementary school children. Three hundred and sixty-five primary school children aged 7–12 years completed seven attention tests (alertness, focused attention, divided attention, attentional switching, sustained attention, spatial attention, and supervisory attention). A factor analysis indicated that there was no stable construct of attention among 7- to 8-year-old children. However, from 9 years on, children’s attention could be separated into perceptual and executive attention. Notably, however, the attention types included in these two factors differed from those among adults.