TY  - JOUR
N2  - Inhibitory control, a core executive function, emerges in infancy and develops rapidly across childhood. Methodological limitations have meant that studies investigating the neural correlates underlying inhibitory control in infancy are rare. Employing functional near-infrared spectroscopy alongside a novel touchscreen task that measures response inhibition, this study aimed to uncover the neural underpinnings of inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants (N = 135). We found that when inhibition was required, the right prefrontal and parietal cortices were more activated than when there was no inhibitory demand. This demonstrates that inhibitory control in infants as young as 10 months of age is supported by similar brain areas as in older children and adults. With this study we have lowered the age-boundary for localising the neural substrates of response inhibition to the first year of life.
ID  - discovery10149219
AV  - public
KW  - Executive function
KW  -  Response inhibition
KW  -  Infancy
KW  -  Functional near-infrared spectroscopy
KW  -  Prefrontal cortex
KW  -  Parietal cortex
A1  - Fiske, Abigail
A1  - de Klerk, Carina
A1  - Lui, Katie YK
A1  - Collins-Jones, Liam
A1  - Hendry, Alexandra
A1  - Greenhalgh, Isobel
A1  - Hall, Anna
A1  - Scerif, Gaia
A1  - Dvergsdal, Henrik
A1  - Holmboe, Karla
Y1  - 2022/08/15/
N1  - © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. under a Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119241
JF  - NeuroImage
TI  - The neural correlates of inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study
VL  - 257
PB  - Elsevier BV
ER  -