Chunk #14 — Changes in Frontal EEG Coherence across Infancy Predict Cognitive Abilities at Age 3: The Mediating Role of Attentional Control — Prefrontal Organization and the Development of Attentional Control
The ACC, the central node of the executive attention network, is a subcortical structure with projections throughout the PFC (Li, Qin, Liu, Fan, Wang, Jiang, & Yu, 2013). In adults, the ACC becomes activated during situations that elicit conflict or that require selective attention (see Carter & van Veen, 2007 for a review). Medial and lateral prefrontal regions are also reliably activated during tasks that require various forms of cognitive control, particularly cognitive flexibility (see Ridderinkhof, Ullsperger, Crone, & Nieuwenhuis, 2004 for a review). Importantly, the adult neurocognitive literature has demonstrated the importance of coordinated activation across these regions in relation to controlled attention processes (Fan, McCandliss, Fossella, Flombaum, & Posner, 2005).
