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SUBMITTER: Chatham CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2666994 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chatham Christopher H CH Frank Michael J MJ Munakata Yuko Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090324 14
The capacity to anticipate and prepare for future events is thought to be critical for cognitive control. Dominant accounts of cognitive control treat the developing system as merely a weaker version of the adult system, progressively strengthening over time. Using the AX Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT) in combination with high-resolution pupillometry, we find that whereas 8-year-old children resemble adults in their proactive use of cognitive control, 3.5-year-old children exhibit a qualit ...[more]