Holmboe, K and Pasco Fearon, RM and Csibra, G and Tucker, LA and Johnson, MH (2008) Freeze-Frame: A new infant inhibition task and its relation to frontal cortex tasks during infancy and early childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 100 (2). pp. 89-114. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2007.09.004
Holmboe, K and Pasco Fearon, RM and Csibra, G and Tucker, LA and Johnson, MH (2008) Freeze-Frame: A new infant inhibition task and its relation to frontal cortex tasks during infancy and early childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 100 (2). pp. 89-114. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2007.09.004
Holmboe, K and Pasco Fearon, RM and Csibra, G and Tucker, LA and Johnson, MH (2008) Freeze-Frame: A new infant inhibition task and its relation to frontal cortex tasks during infancy and early childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 100 (2). pp. 89-114. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2007.09.004
Abstract
The current study investigated a new, easily administered, visual inhibition task for infants termed the Freeze-Frame task. In the new task, 9-month-olds were encouraged to inhibit looks to peripheral distractors. This was done by briefly freezing a central animated stimulus when infants looked to the distractors. Half of the trials presented an engaging central stimulus, and the other half presented a repetitive central stimulus. Three measures of inhibitory function were derived from the task and compared with performance on a set of frontal cortex tasks administered at 9 and 24 months of age. As expected, infants? ability to learn to selectively inhibit looks to the distractors at 9 months predicted performance at 24 months. However, performance differences in the two Freeze-Frame trial types early in the experiment also turned out to be an important predictor. The results are discussed in terms of the validity of the Freeze-Frame task as an early measure of different components of inhibitory function.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Infancy; Early childhood; Inhibition; Frontal cortex; Longitudinal research |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2013 11:56 |
Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2024 11:41 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/5701 |