ERIC Number: EJ1325486
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0300-4430
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Sex and Age-Related Differences in Inhibitory Control in Typically Developing Children
Sadeghi, Saeid; Shalani, Bita; Nejati, Vahid
Early Child Development and Care, v192 n2 p292-301 2022
The inhibitory control (IC) is one of the basic executive functions (EFs) that all other EFs are hierarchically perched on this ability. Current knowledge of IC development in the elementary school years is limited. In this study, three tasks; go/no-go task (response inhibition), flanker task (attentional inhibition), and circle-tracing time task (motor inhibition) were administered to investigate sex and age-related differences in IC in 240 children (120 boys) aged 7-12 years preschoolers. Results showed some gender differences in neutral reaction time (RT) in flanker task and go accuracy number in go/no-go task. Also, results suggest the existence of age-related differences in go accuracy number and RT in go/no-go task, neutral RT in flanker task, and motor inhibition index in circle-tracing task that these correlations follow a nonlinear relationship. Our study indicates that IC develop rapidly in the first two years of formal schooling then proceeds at a slower rate.
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Inhibition, Self Control, Executive Function, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Iran
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