TY - JOUR
T1 - Brain activity and cognitive transition during childhood
T2 - A longitudinal event-related brain potential study
AU - Stauder, Johannes E.A.
AU - Molenaar, Peter C.M.
AU - Van Der Molen, Maurits W.
N1 - Funding Information:
* This study was supported by PSYCHON grant 560-265-026 from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and a grant from the Groupe de Recherche en Neuropsychologie Expérimentale (GRENE), University of Montreal. The authors would like to thank Élaine de Guise for her helpful comments and the parents, staff, and children of the St. Antonius, 3e Alberdingh Thijm, 3e Dalton, 2e Openlucht School van het Gezonde Kind, Nicolaas Maes, De Praatpaal, De Pool, De Waaier, and De Willibrord Schools for their cooperation. Address correspondence to: Johannes E.A. Stauder, Maastricht University, Department of Psychology, Biological section, Postbus 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. E-mail: H.Stauder@psychology.unimaas.nl. Accepted for publication: March 2, 1998.
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PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - This study examined the relation between brain activation and cognitive development using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and a longitudinal design. Five-year-old girls performed a visual recognition ('odd-ball') task and an experimental analogue of the Piagetian conservation of liquid quantity task at three experimental sessions, with one year between consecutive sessions. The data revealed age-related changes in neurocognitive mechanisms common to both tasks. In comparing children before and after a Piagetian transition on a traditional clinical conservation test the data revealed a major shift in performance and ERPs to the experimental analogue of the liquid quantity task. These findings are consistent with a previously performed cross-sectional study and provide strong support for the hypothesis that cognitive transition is related to new neurocognitive mechanisms emerging during childhood. Possible implications of these findings for child neuropsychology are discussed.
AB - This study examined the relation between brain activation and cognitive development using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and a longitudinal design. Five-year-old girls performed a visual recognition ('odd-ball') task and an experimental analogue of the Piagetian conservation of liquid quantity task at three experimental sessions, with one year between consecutive sessions. The data revealed age-related changes in neurocognitive mechanisms common to both tasks. In comparing children before and after a Piagetian transition on a traditional clinical conservation test the data revealed a major shift in performance and ERPs to the experimental analogue of the liquid quantity task. These findings are consistent with a previously performed cross-sectional study and provide strong support for the hypothesis that cognitive transition is related to new neurocognitive mechanisms emerging during childhood. Possible implications of these findings for child neuropsychology are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1076/chin.5.1.41.7073
DO - 10.1076/chin.5.1.41.7073
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033060096
SN - 0929-7049
VL - 5
SP - 41
EP - 59
JO - Child Neuropsychology
JF - Child Neuropsychology
IS - 1
ER -