Individual Differences in Childhood Sleep Problems Predict Later Cognitive Executive Control

Prior sleep problems predict internalising problems later in life.

BACKGROUND One possible risk marker of later internalising symptoms is poor sleep, which is a problem for up to 40% of children. The present study investigated whether prior sleep problems could predict internalising symptoms over a period of 18 years of follow-up. METHODS The study sample included 1503 French young adults from the TEMPO cohort (mean age=28.8±3.6 years) whose parents particip...

Individual differences in executive function predict distinct eating behaviours.

Executive function has been shown to influence the performance of health behaviours. Healthy eating involves both the inhibitory behaviour of consuming low amounts of saturated fat, and the initiatory behaviour of consuming fruit and vegetables. Based on this distinction, it was hypothesised that these behaviours would have different determinants. Measures of inhibitory control and updating wer...

Predicting individual differences in low-income children's executive control from early to middle childhood.

The present longitudinal study tested the roles of early childhood executive control (EC) as well as exposure to poverty-related adversity at family and school levels as key predictors of low-income children's EC in elementary school (n = 391). Findings suggest that children's EC difficulties in preschool and lower family income from early to middle childhood are robust predictors of later EC d...

Cognitive neuroscience approaches to Individual Differences in Working Memory and Executive Control: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Individual differences in executive processing predict susceptibility to interference in verbal working memory.

Recent theories have suggested that resistance to interference is a unifying principle of executive function and that individual differences in interference may be explained by executive function (M. J. Kane & R. W. Engle, 2002). Measures of executive function, memory, and perceptual speed were obtained from 121 older adults (ages 63-82). We used structural equation modeling to investigate the ...