Auditory attention in childhood and adolescence: An event-related potential study of spatial selective attention to one of two simultaneous stories

Highlights • We measured auditory ERPs in children ages 3–16 years using a naturalistic dichotic listening task.• ERP morphology differed for nonlinguistic versus linguistic probes in attended and unattended stories.• Maturational changes were different for nonlinguistic versus linguistic probes.• Attention modulated the amplitude of early-latency ERPs and invoked later sustained processes.• Development of attentional processes was not uniform for different probe types.

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