Children’s Failure in Analogical Reasoning Tasks: A Problem of Focus of Attention and Information Integration?

Children’s improved performance with age in analogy tasks has been explained by an increase in semantic knowledge of the items and the relations between them or by the development of an increased ability to inhibit irrelevant information. We tested the so-called “unbalanced attentional focus hypothe...

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Main Authors: Yannick Glady, Robert M. French, Jean-Pierre Thibaut
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00707/full