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- The study highlights the importance of cognitive control for adaptive behavior and future success in life, emphasizing that low cognitive control in childhood can be risky.
- It observed how children (ages 3 to 12) and adults prioritize information differently in cognitive tasks, with younger children focusing on objects to respond to, while older children and adults look at cues that guide their actions first.
- This shift in focus suggests that cognitive control development may not solely rely on executive functions and could lead to new opportunities for interventions to improve cognitive skills.
Article Abstract
Emerging cognitive control supports increasingly adaptive behaviors and predicts life success, while low cognitive control is a major risk factor during childhood. It is therefore essential to understand how it develops. The present study provides evidence for an age-related shift in the type of information that children prioritize in their environment, from objects that can be directly acted upon to cues signaling how to act. Specifically, gaze patterns recorded while 3- to 12-year-olds and adults engaged in a cognitive control task showed that whereas younger children fixated on targets that they needed to respond to before gazing at task cues signaling how to respond, older children and adults showed the opposite pattern (which yielded better performance). This shift in information prioritization has important conceptual implications, suggesting that a major force behind cognitive control development may be non-executive in nature, as well as opening new directions for interventions.
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