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An Embodied Account of Early Executive-Function Development : Prospective Motor Control in Infancy Is Related to Inhibition and Working Memory
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- Gottwald, Janna M. (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för psykologi
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- Achermann, Sheila (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för psykologi
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- Marciszko, Carin (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för psykologi
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- Lindskog, Marcus (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för psykologi
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- Gredebäck, Gustaf (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för psykologi
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- 2016-10-08
- 2016
- English.
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In: Psychological Science. - : SAGE Publications. - 0956-7976 .- 1467-9280. ; 27:12, s. 1600-1610
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- The importance of executive functioning for later life outcomes, along with its potential to be positively affected by intervention programs, motivates the need to find early markers of executive functioning. In this study, 18-month-olds performed three executive-function tasksinvolving simple inhibition, working memory, and more complex inhibitionand a motion-capture task assessing prospective motor control during reaching. We demonstrated that prospective motor control, as measured by the peak velocity of the first movement unit, is related to infants' performance on simple-inhibition and working memory tasks. The current study provides evidence that motor control and executive functioning are intertwined early in life, which suggests an embodied perspective on executive-functioning development. We argue that executive functions and prospective motor control develop from a common source and a single motive: to control action. This is the first demonstration that low-level movement planning is related to higher-order executive control early in life.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Psychology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- prospective motor control
- motor development
- executive functions
- reaching
- infancy
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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