Chunk #15 — 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
A much smaller body of literature has demonstrated these associations in infants and young children. Using an event-related potential marker of ACC activity, Berger et al. (2006) found that 6- to 9-month-olds who successfully detected errors during a violation of expectation paradigm also exhibited the same pattern of ACC activation that has been found in adults. An fMRI study with school-aged children reported a significant association between performance on the DCCS task and lateral PFC activation during the post-switch phase of the task (Crone, Donohue, Honomichl, Wendelken, & Bunge, 2006). However, very few studies have investigated how the coordination of brain activity across these regions relates to attention or cognitive performance in young children. Given the theoretical significance of this neural network to attention and cognition (Posner & Rothbart, 2007), this is a particularly remarkable gap in the empirical literature.
