Does prefrontal connectivity during task switching help or hinder children's performance?

ABSTRACT: The ability to flexibly switch between tasks is key for goal-directed behavior and continues to improve across childhood. Children's task switching difficulties are thought to reflect less efficient engagement of sustained and transient control processes, resulting in lower performance on blocks that intermix tasks (sustained demand) and trials that require a task switch (transient demand). Sustained and transient control processes are associated with frontoparietal regions, which develop throughout childhood and may contribute to task switching development. We examined age differences in the modulation of frontoparietal regions by sustained and transient control demands in children (8-11 years) and adults. Children showed greater performance costs than adults, especially under sustained d

SUBMITTER: Schwarze SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9969289 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature