Ganesan, K;
Spowage, J;
Smid, CR;
Iqbal, S;
Thompson, A;
Phillips, H;
Buchberger, ES;
(2023)
Examining Mechanisms of Childhood Cognitive Control.
Journal of Cognition
, 6
(1)
, Article 50. 10.5334/JOC.314.
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Abstract
Childhood cognitive control is an important predictor for positive development, yet interventions seeking to improve it have provided mixed results. This is partly due to lack of clarity surrounding mechanisms of cognitive control, notably the role of inhibition and context monitoring. Here we use a randomized controlled trial to causally test the contributions of inhibition and context monitoring to cognitive control in childhood. Sixty children aged 6 to 9-years were assigned to three groups training either inhibition, context monitoring group or response speed using a gamified, highly variable and maximally adaptive training protocol. Whereas all children improved in the targeted cognitive functions over the course of training, pre-post data show that only the inhibition group improved on cognitive control. These findings serve as a first step in demonstrating the promise inhibition-based cognitive control interventions may hold.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Examining Mechanisms of Childhood Cognitive Control |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5334/JOC.314 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5334/JOC.314 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) (unless stated otherwise) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Cognitive control, Cognitive control training, Executive functions |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10183321 |
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