Emotional Availability Modulates Electrophysiological Correlates of Executive Functions in Preschool Children.

ABSTRACT: Executive functions (EFs) - a set of cognitive control abilities - mediate resilience to stress and are associated with academic achievement and health throughout life. They are crucially linked to prefrontal cortex function as well as to other cortical and subcortical brain functions, which are maturing throughout childhood at different rates. Recent behavioral research suggested that children's EFs were related to parenting quality and child attachment security, but the neural correlates of these associations are unknown. With this study we tested in 4- to 6-year-old healthy children (N = 27) how emotional availability (EA) of the mother-child-interaction was associated with behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of response inhibition (a core EF) in a Go/Nogo task, using event-r

SUBMITTER: Schneider-Hassloff H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4917527 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature