{"pk":27464,"title":"Predicting Preschool-Aged Children’s Behavior Regulation from Attention Tasksin the Lab","subtitle":null,"abstract":"One challenge in studying cognition over the lifespan is designing tasks that measure the same construct in dif-ferent age groups and relate reliably to real-world outcomes. The current study confronts this challenge by testing a newparadigm to assess attention in preschool-aged children for comparison with other measures. Children completed the new“Pop-the-Bubbles” paradigm plus Flanker and Visual Search tasks, for comparison with parental reports of behavioral regula-tion. Correlations between behavioral regulation and measures from both Flanker and Pop-the-Bubbles suggest that children’sability to ignore irrelevant stimuli in these lab tasks relates to their ability to behave appropriately in everyday situations. Fur-ther development of Pop-the-Bubbles for eye-tracking and a color version of Flanker are underway to test these relationshipsmore extensively in young children.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b9911gd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Chelsea","middle_name":"","last_name":"Andrews","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin - Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Emily","middle_name":"","last_name":"Coates","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ripon College","department":""},{"first_name":"Kristine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kovack-Lesh","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ripon College","department":""},{"first_name":"Vanessa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Simmering","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin - Madison","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27464/galley/17100/download/"}]}