Evidence of substantial development of inhibitory control and sustained attention between 6 and 8years of age on an unpredictable Go/No-Go task
| Autor: | Simon P. Kelly, Robert A. Reeve, Frances C. Lewis, Katherine A Johnson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychological Tests Audiology 050105 experimental psychology Self-Control Task (project management) Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Inhibitory control Reaction Time Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Response inhibition media_common Analysis of Variance 05 social sciences Attentional control Cognition Self-control Inhibition Psychological Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity Go/no go Female Analysis of variance Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 157:66-80 |
| ISSN: | 0022-0965 |
| Popis: | Inhibitory control and sustained attention are important cognitive abilities; however, their developmental trajectories remain unclear. In total, 35 6-year-olds, 32 8-year-olds, and 37 10-year-olds performed a Go/No-Go task; this required frequent responding to stimuli with infrequent inhibition to a target that appeared unpredictably. Children performed this task three times over 12months. Response time variability and accuracy measures, linked to inhibition and sustained attention, were assessed. Specifically, fast Fourier transform and ex-Gaussian analyses of response time data provided several measures of response time variability; these measures are thought to represent different components of sustained attention. The 6-year-olds performed less well than the older groups on most measures. The 8-year-olds exhibited greater momentary fluctuations in response time and made more long responses than the 10-year-olds; otherwise, there were few differences between the two older groups. Response inhibition and sustained attention developed significantly between 6 and 8years of age, with subtle changes in attentional control between 8 and 11years of age. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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