Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function.

ABSTRACT: The development of the ability to anticipate-as manifested by preparatory actions and neural activation related to the expectation of an upcoming stimulus-may play a key role in the ontogeny of cognitive skills more broadly. This preregistered study examined anticipatory brain potentials and behavioral responses (reaction time; RT) to anticipated target stimuli in relation to individual differences in the ability to use goals to direct action (as indexed by measures of executive function; EF). A cross-sectional investigation was conducted in 40 adults (aged 18-25 years) and 40 children (aged 6-8 years) to examine the association of changes in the amplitude of modality-specific alpha-range rhythms in the electroencephalogram (EEG) during anticipation of lateralized visual, tactile, or audit

SUBMITTER: Meredith Weiss S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10078525 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature