Chunk #21 — Changes in Frontal EEG Coherence across Infancy Predict Cognitive Abilities at Age 3: The Mediating Role of Attentional Control — The Current Study
control, the second aim of the study is to examine whether changes in frontal EEG coherence across the second half of the first year are associated with attentional control skills at age 2. The final aim is to examine whether observed changes in coherence indirectly impact the emergence of 3-year cognitive abilities through their influence on attentional control at age 2. Given the lack of available data pertaining to early brain development, the inclusion of aims 2 and 3 fill an important gap in the empirical literature. It is hypothesized that (1) attentional control at age 2 will have unique positive associations with 3-year receptive language, cognitive flexibility, and behavioral IC; (2) that increases in resting frontal EEG coherence across the second half of the first year will be positively associated with attentional control at age 2; and (3) changes in coherence during this time will be indirectly associated with cognitive abilities at age 3, indirectly through children’s attentional control.
