Changes in behaviour and salivary cortisol following targeted cognitive training in typical 12-month-old infants
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Wass, S., Cook, Clare and Clackson, Kaili 2017. Changes in behaviour and salivary cortisol following targeted cognitive training in typical 12-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology. 53 (5), pp. 815-825. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000266
Authors | Wass, S., Cook, Clare and Clackson, Kaili |
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Abstract | Previous research has suggested that early development may be an optimal period to implement cognitive training interventions, particularly those relating to attention control, a basic ability that is essential for the development of other cognitive skills. In the present study, we administered gaze-contingent training (95 minutes across 2 weeks) targeted at voluntary attention control to a cohort of typical 12-month-old children (N = 24) and sham training to a control group (N = 24). We assessed training effects on (a) tasks involving non-trained aspects of attention control: visual sustained attention, habituation speed, visual recognition memory, sequence learning and reversal learning; (b) general attentiveness (on-task behaviours during testing) and (c) salivary cortisol levels. Assessments were administered immediately following the cessation of training and at a 6-week follow-up. On the immediate post-test infants showed significantly more sustained visual attention, faster habituation and improved sequence learning. Significant effects were also found for increased general attentiveness and decreased salivary cortisol. Some of these effects were still evident at the 6-week follow-up (significantly improved sequence learning and marginally improved […] sustained attention). These findings extend the emerging literature showing that attention training is possible in infancy. |
Keywords | Infancy; attention; cognitive training |
Journal | Developmental Psychology |
Journal citation | 53 (5), pp. 815-825 |
ISSN | 0012-1649 |
1939-0599 | |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | American Psychological Association |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000266 |
Publication dates | |
May 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 18 May 2017 |
Accepted | 27 Oct 2016 |
Funder | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | |
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship | |
Economic and Social Research Council | |
Copyright information | ©American Psychological Association, 2017. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. Please do not copy or cite without author's permission. The final article is available, upon publication, at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000266 |
License | All rights reserved |
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