Cognitive flexibility in 12-month-old preterm and term infants is associated with neurobehavioural development in 18-month-olds.

ABSTRACT: There is growing evidence that preterm children are at an increased risk of poor executive functioning, which underlies behavioural and attention problems. Previous studies have suggested that early cognitive flexibility is a possible predictor of later executive function; however, how it develops in infancy and relates to the later neurobehavioural outcomes is still unclear in the preterm population. Here, we conducted a longitudinal study to investigate oculomotor response shifting in 27 preterm and 25 term infants at 12 months and its relationship with general cognitive development and effortful control, which is a temperamental aspect closely associated with executive function, at 18 months. We found that moderate to late preterm and term infants significantly inhibited previously rewa

SUBMITTER: Shinya Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8748813 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature