Training attention control of very preterm infants: protocol for a feasibility study of the Attention Control Training (ACT).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children born preterm may display cognitive, learning, and behaviour difficulties as they grow up. In particular, very premature birth (gestation age between 28 and less than 32 weeks) may put infants at increased risk of intellectual deficits and attention deficit disorder. Evidence suggests that the basis of these problems may lie in difficulties in the development of executive functions. One of the earliest executive functions to emerge around 1 year of age is the ability to control attention. An eye-tracking-based cognitive training programme to support this emerging ability, the Attention Control Training (ACT), has been developed and tested with typically developing infants. The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility of using the ACT with healthy very

SUBMITTER: Perra O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7008548 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature