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TY - JOUR
T1 - The neural correlates of inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants
T2 - A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study
AU - Fiske, Abigail
AU - de Klerk, Carina
AU - Lui, Katie Y.K.
AU - Collins-Jones, Liam
AU - Hendry, Alexandra
AU - Greenhalgh, Isobel
AU - Hall, Anna
AU - Scerif, Gaia
AU - Dvergsdal, Henrik
AU - Holmboe, Karla
PY - 2022/8/15
Y1 - 2022/8/15
N2 - Inhibitory control, a core executive function, emerges in infancy and develops rapidly across childhood. Methodological limitations have meant that studies investigating the neural correlates underlying inhibitory control in infancy are rare. Employing functional near-infrared spectroscopy alongside a novel touchscreen task that measures response inhibition, this study aimed to uncover the neural underpinnings of inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants (N = 135). We found that when inhibition was required, the right prefrontal and parietal cortices were more activated than when there was no inhibitory demand. This demonstrates that inhibitory control in infants as young as 10 months of age is supported by similar brain areas as in older children and adults. With this study we have lowered the age-boundary for localising the neural substrates of response inhibition to the first year of life.
AB - Inhibitory control, a core executive function, emerges in infancy and develops rapidly across childhood. Methodological limitations have meant that studies investigating the neural correlates underlying inhibitory control in infancy are rare. Employing functional near-infrared spectroscopy alongside a novel touchscreen task that measures response inhibition, this study aimed to uncover the neural underpinnings of inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants (N = 135). We found that when inhibition was required, the right prefrontal and parietal cortices were more activated than when there was no inhibitory demand. This demonstrates that inhibitory control in infants as young as 10 months of age is supported by similar brain areas as in older children and adults. With this study we have lowered the age-boundary for localising the neural substrates of response inhibition to the first year of life.
U2 - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119241
DO - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119241
M3 - Journal article
VL - 257
JO - NeuroImage
JF - NeuroImage
SN - 1053-8119
M1 - 119241
ER -