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Joyce, Amanda W.; Friedman, Denise R.; Wolfe, Christy D.; Bell, Martha Ann – Infant and Child Development, 2018
Executive attention, the attention necessary to reconcile conflict among simultaneous attentional demands, is vital to children's daily lives. This attention develops rapidly as the anterior cingulate cortex and prefrontal areas mature during early and middle childhood. However, the developmental course of executive attention is not uniform among…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Attention, Longitudinal Studies, Predictor Variables
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Bernier, Annie; Calkins, Susan D.; Bell, Martha Ann – Child Development, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate if normative variations in parenting relate to brain development among typically developing children. A sample of 352 mother-infant dyads came to the laboratory when infants were 5, 10, and 24 months of age (final N = 215). At each visit, child resting electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Brain, Medicine
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Cuevas, Kimberly; Bell, Martha Ann; Marcovitch, Stuart; Calkins, Susan D. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
We recorded electroencephalogram (EEG; 6-9 Hz) and heart rate (HR) from infants at 5 and 10 months of age during baseline and performance on the looking A-not-B task of infant working memory (WM). Longitudinal baseline-to-task comparisons revealed WM-related increases in EEG power (all electrodes) and EEG coherence (medial frontal-occipital…
Descriptors: Medicine, Rhetoric, Metabolism, Psychophysiology