Although rates of child maltreatment are declining, more than 600,000 children in the United
States are substantiated victims of abuse or neglect. The focus of this review is on the …

Visual attention functions as a filter to select environmental information for learning and
memory, making it the first step in the eventual cascade of thought and action systems. Here …

Many but not all cognitive abilities decline during ageing. Some even improve due to lifelong
experience. The critical capacities of attention and executive functions have been widely …

Alerting, orienting, and executive control are widely thought to be relatively independent
aspects of attention that are linked to separable brain regions. However, neuroimaging …

As Titchener pointed out more than one hundred years ago, attention is at the center of the
psychological enterprise. Attention research investigates how voluntary control and …

Recent research in attention has involved three networks of anatomical areas that carry out
the functions of orienting, alerting and executive control (including conflict monitoring). There …

The need of bilinguals to continuously control two languages during speech production may
exert general effects on their attentional networks. To explore this issue we compared the …

In two experiments, we examined inhibitory control processes in three groups of bilinguals
and trilinguals that differed in nonnative language proficiency and language learning …

A neural network underlying attentional control involves the anterior cingulate in addition to
lateral prefrontal areas. An important development of this network occurs between 3 and 7 …

Attention is both the preparedness for and mental selection of certain aspects of the physical
environment or ideas in one's mind. Several researchers have argued that there might be …