Ohio’s Middle Childhood Licensure Study

Proactive control in early and middle childhood: An ERP study

Children experience important cognitive control improvements in the transition to school. This study examined 4-5-year-olds' (n=17) and 7-8-year-olds' (n=22) ability to proactively deploy cognitive control. Children performed a cued task-switching paradigm presenting them with a cue indicating which attribute, color or shape, they should use to sort the upcoming stimulus. Following both cue and...

Cohort-Sequential Study of Conflict Inhibition during Middle Childhood.

This longitudinal study examined developmental changes in conflict inhibition and error correction in three cohorts of children (5, 7, and 9 years of age). At each point of assessment children completed three levels of Luria's tapping task (1980), which requires the inhibition of a dominant response and maintenance of task rules in working memory. Findings suggest that both conflict inhibition ...

Feeding disorders of infancy: a longitudinal study to middle childhood.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate over time feeding behavior and emotional-behavioral functioning in a sample of children diagnosed with Infantile Anorexia (IA) and a group of typically developing children; and to investigate the relationship between maternal psychological functioning and the children's feeding patterns and emotional-behavioral functioning. METHOD Seventy-two children diagnosed with IA a...

Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence

Middle Childhood: Physical & Cognitive Development