Longitudinal development of attention and inhibitory control during the first year of life

Karla Holmboe; Arielle Bonneville-Roussy; Gergely Csibra; Mark H. Johnson

doi:10.1111/desc.12690

Longitudinal development of attention and inhibitory control during the first year of life

Karla Holmboe, Arielle Bonneville-Roussy, Gergely Csibra, Mark H. Johnson

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Executive functions (EFs) are key abilities that allow us to control our thoughts and actions. Research suggests that two EFs, inhibitory control (IC) and working memory (WM), emerge around 9 months. Little is known about IC earlier in infancy and whether basic attentional processes form the “building blocks” of emerging IC. These questions were investigated longitudinally in 104 infants tested behaviorally on two screen‐based attention tasks at 4 months, and on IC tasks at 6 and 9 months. Results provided no evidence that basic attention formed precursors for IC. However, there was full support for coherence in IC at 9 months and partial support for stability in IC from 6 months. This suggests that IC emerges earlier than previously assumed. A video abstract of this article can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVE17hooANY © 2018, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The attached document (embargoed until 17/06/2019) is an author produced version of a paper published in Developmental Science uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

Original language	English
Article number	e12690
Journal	Developmental Science
Volume	21
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12690 https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12690
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2018

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