Visual foraging and executive functions: A developmental perspective

Visual foraging tasks, where participants search for multiple targets at a time, may provide a richer picture of visual attention than traditional single-target visual search tasks. To contribute to the mapping of foraging abilities throughout childhood and to assess whether foraging ability is dependent upon EF abilities, we compared the foraging of 66 children aged 4–7 years (mean age = 5.68 years, SD = 0.97 years, 33 girls), 67 children aged...