first year were associated with observed attentional control at age 2. As expected, left frontal EEG coherence at 10-months (controlling for 5-month values) was positively associated with observed attentional control at age 2. Thus, as synaptic connections between left frontal regions increased (i.e., functional integration), children’s capacity to use their attention in a goal-directed fashion also increased. We interpret this finding to be mostly consistent with theoretical perspectives of attention which have proposed that an executive attention network develops during this time (Posner & Petersen, 1990; Posner & Rothbart, 2007).
