Figure 6.

Left column: z-standardized mean reaction times for valid, neutral and invalid conditions of the attention paradigm. Error bars indicate standard error of the mean. Right column: the reorienting effect (difference between neutral and invalid trials) plotted against the operational momentum bias. For reorienting better performance is indicated by numerically larger (i.e., less negative) values. A regular operational momentum effect corresponds to positive values, an inverse operational momentum effect corresponds to negative values. The correlation between reorienting and operational momentum signifies that the less children suffer from invalid cueing the more they are prone to exhibit a regular operational momentum effect.