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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 4.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2010 Feb 1;19(1):51–57. doi: 10.1177/0963721409359277

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Illustration of the method of Cowan et al. (in press) using object arrays, and the key result. For simple materials, the capacity limit increased markedly from age 7 to adulthood, whereas the ability to focus on the relevant items and to ignore irrelevant ones stayed rather constant across that time.