ArticleDevelopmental psychology2012
Control networks and neuromodulators of early development.
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79 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 205 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
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- Attention deficit in primary-school-age children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder measured with the attention network test: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Interactive Effects of Temperament and Family-Related Environmental Confusion on Spoken Language in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022Article
- The relationship of muscular endurance and coordination and dexterity with behavioral and neuroelectric indices of attention in preschool children.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Infant Attentional behaviors Are Associated With ADHD Symptomatology and Executive Function in Early Childhood.Journal of attention disorders · 2021Article
- Alerting, orienting, and executive control in intellectually gifted children.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
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Abstract
In adults, most cognitive and emotional self-regulation is carried out by a network of brain regions, including the anterior cingulate, insula, and areas of the basal ganglia, related to executive attention. We propose that during infancy, control systems depend primarily upon a brain network involved in orienting to sensory events that includes areas of the parietal lobe and frontal eye fields. Studies of human adults and alert monkeys have shown that the brain network involved in orienting to sensory events is moderated primarily by the nicotinic cholinergic system arising in the nucleus basalis. The executive attention network is primarily moderated by dopaminergic input from the ventral tegmental area. A change from cholinergic to dopaminergic modulation would be a consequence of this switch of control networks and may be important in understanding early development. We trace the attentional, emotional, and behavioral changes in early development related to this developmental change in regulative networks and their modulators.
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