Predicting cognitive control from preschool to late adolescence and young adulthood. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • In this longitudinal study, the proportion of time preschoolers directed their attention away from rewarding stimuli during a delay-of-gratification task was positively associated with efficiency (greater speed without reduced accuracy) at responding to targets in a go/no-go task more than 10 years later. The overall findings suggest that preschoolers' ability to effectively direct their attention away from tempting aspects of the rewards in a delay-of-gratification task may be a developmental precursor for the ability to perform inhibitory tasks such as the go/no-go task years later. Because performance on the go/no-go task has previously been characterized as involving activation of fronto-striatal regions, the present findings also suggest that performance in the delay-of-gratification task may serve as an early marker of individual differences in the functional integrity of this circuitry.

publication date

  • June 1, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Cognition
  • Inhibition, Psychological

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33744954936

PubMed ID

  • 16771797

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 17

issue

  • 6