Age RSVP Block Object Symbol Digit Level Design Assembly Search Span RSVP Level-306(**) Block Design-.065-.165 Object Assembly.055-.227(*).362(**) Symbol Search.021-.190.333(**).378(**) Digit Span.060-.248(*).326(**).142.157

Human visual attention is limited in respect to both space (how many items can be attended to simultaneously) and time (how rapidly consecutive items can be processed). Whilst the former has been extensively researched in both adults and children (Huang-Pollock, Carr, & Nigg, 2002), research into the ability to process sequentially presented stimuli has primarily been conducted with adolescents and adults. Typically, these studies involve using rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) in which one or two target items, embedded in a stream of distracter stimuli, must be identified. However, a limitation of RSVP paradigms is that they typically require participants to identify letter or word stimuli. Thus, whilst RSVP paradigms could be useful in investigating development in children, this is confounded by reading ability. This might explain why research into the time-course of visual attention in children is limited. To circumvent this problem, we have developed an RSVP paradigm with schematic faces as target stimuli (Maratos, Mogg, & Bradley, 2008). Our aim was to extend this research by using a modified version of this paradigm t