Chunk #11 — Changes in Frontal EEG Coherence across Infancy Predict Cognitive Abilities at Age 3: The Mediating Role of Attentional Control — The Role of Attentional Control in the Development of Higher-Level Cognition
Another domain of cognition that shows important changes across the third year of life is language. Language ability reflects the capacity to use words or symbols to communicate with oneself and others. Receptive vocabulary is a common and reliable indicator of young children’s language ability because it reflects the amount of words they have stored at their disposal with which to effectively use. Receptive language shows enormous growth across the third year of life. According to results from an investigation of language-related milestones (Luinge, Post, Wit, & Goorhuis-Brouwer, 2006), less than half of children between 1- and 2-years of age were able to comprehend 3-word sentences compared to nearly all of children between 2- and 3-years of age. Further, receptive language is highly variable among preschool-aged children and relatively stable over time (Dollaghan & Campbell, 2009).
