11:00 - 12:30
Talk Session 2
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11:00 - 12:30
Mon—HZ_2—Talks2—9
Mon-Talks2
Room:
Room: HZ_2
Chair/s:
Iris Wiegand, Jan Tünnermann
Past, present and future in the study of experimental foraging in children
Mon—HZ_2—Talks2—904
Presented by: Beatriz Gil-Gómez de Liaño
Beatriz Gil-Gómez de Liaño *
Autonomous University of Madrid
As a more complex version of visual search, in Foraging and Hybrid Foraging (HF), observers
search for multiple exemplars of multiple targets (e.g. look for yellow and purple perler-beads in
the handicrafts box). In this talk, I will review what we know about foraging in children so far:
How children search in foraging and HF tasks using different types of stimuli, in exhaustive and
non-exhaustive foraging, under various conditions of memory modulations, or how they
organize their search at diverse moments in development. We will also pay special attention to
flexibility and decision-making in quitting rules in foraging in children, as well as differences
between typically developing children and atypical developmental individuals (specifically,
children diagnosed with ADHD). We will also show our FORAGEKID game as a valuable tool
for understanding the development of executive function in foraging tasks and the potential use
in the future of experimental and applied neuropsychological sciences.
Keywords: Hybrid Foraging, children, visual search, ADHD