Developmental trajectory of rule management system in children
| Autor: | Motoharu Tsuruno, Tetsuya Shirokawa, Taeko Harada |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Aging Process (engineering) Control (management) lcsh:Medicine Article 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cognitive resource theory Task Performance and Analysis Reaction Time Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences lcsh:Science Child Multidisciplinary lcsh:R 05 social sciences Contrast (statistics) Cognition Developmental trajectory Child Preschool Management system lcsh:Q Female Growth and Development Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | The ability to apply rules for environmental adaptation is crucial for human life. This capacity may require high-order cognitive control, such as when managing personal behavior by selecting among context-dependent internal rules. This process is poorly understood in children, especially in terms of the age at which multiple-rules processing becomes possible. We created a child-appropriate “rule management paradigm” to elucidate developmental changes in rule processing, and used it to investigate the trajectory of the rule management system in 322 children aged 4 to 6 years, with comparison to 57 adults. We found age-specific capacities in multiple-rules processing, with the majority of 4-year-olds failing at concurrent management of multiple-rules processing, a capacity that became well developed by age 6. Task performance in multiple-rules processing improved steeply with age and approached the adult level by late age 6. By contrast, single-rule processing on single-feature stimuli approached the adult level by age 5. Our main findings suggest that the critical period for the development of the multiple-rules processing system occurs before age 7, and is associated with the developmental period of the rule management system and other cognitive resources. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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