TY - JOUR
AU - Casey, B.J.
AB - 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.
TI - Predicting Cognitive Control From Preschool to Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood
JF - Psychological Science
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01732.x
DA - 2006-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/predicting-cognitive-control-from-preschool-to-late-adolescence-and-lRemUalnz2
SP - 478
EP - 484
VL - 17
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -