Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Attention in infancy and the prediction of cognitive capacities in childhood / Marc H. Bornstein -- The role of motion in infants' perception of occlusion / Lincoln G. Craton and Albert Yonas -- Regulatory mechanisms in infant development / Mary K. Rothbart, Michael I. Posner, and Anne Boylan -- Temporal structure of stimulation maintains infant attention / Philip J. Dunham -- Rules for listening in infancy / Sandra E. Trehub and Laurel J. Trainor -- Selectivity and early infant vocalization / Kathleen Bloom -- Relations between components of visual attention / James T. Enns -- More evidence for a common, central constraint on speed of processing / Robert Kail -- Texture segregation in young children / Tara C. Callaghan.

Evidence for efficient visual selectivity in children / Steven P. Tipper and Jennifer McLaren -- Covert orienting in young children / Darlene A. Brodeur -- The development of attentional control mechanisms / Daniel B. Kaye and Ellen M. Ruskin -- Peripheral vision in young children : implications for the study of visual attention / Nameera Akhtar -- Cognitive development and the growth of capacity : issues in neoPiagetian theory / Michael Chapman -- Attention and memory in context-independent and context-interactive situations / Brian P. Ackerman -- Attentional capacity and children's memory strategy use / Robert E. Guttentag and Peter A. Ornstein -- The role of labels in directing children's attention / Thomas B. Ward.

Reorientation in hyperactive and non-hyperactive children : evidence for developmentally immature attention / Deborah A. Pearson and David M. Lane -- A cognitive-developmental approach to studying attention deficits / Robert S. Burke -- Attention and hyperactivity / James M. Swanson [and others] -- Autism : a developmental spatial neglect syndrome? / Susan E. Bryson, J. Ann Wainwright-Sharp, and Isabel M. Smith -- Psychopathy and attention / Timothy J. Harpur and Robert D. Hare -- Aging and the development of visual attention / April D'Aloisio and Raymond M. Klein -- Aging, feature integration, and visual selective attention / Dana J. Plude -- Developmental changes in attention and visual search throughout adulthood / Karlene K. Ball, Daniel L. Roenker, and John R. Bruni.

Adult age differences in visual search : the role of non-attentional processes / Charles T. Scialfa -- Attentional deficits in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias / Peter Graf, Holly Tuokko, and Karen Gallie.

This volume presents an up-to-date review of developmental aspects of human attention by leading researchers and theorists. The papers included in the first section consider the ways in which newborns are pretuned to visual, auditory, linguistic, and social features of their environment, as well as how selectivity to these features changes in the first year of life. The following section examines properties of the visual and auditory world that are attention-getting for children. Developmental increases in capacity and strategy are also examined in this section through the study of perception, memory, problem-solving and language. Section III explores several ways in which selective processing can fail in development (e.g. autism, hyperactivity, and psychopathy) while Section IV reports on those aspects of selectivity that are lost (and preserved) in the aging process.

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