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Encouraging performance monitoring promotes proactive control in children.
Article in Developmental science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Effect of cognitive control strategies on young children's attention and emotion during coding learning.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Metacognitive Prompts Influence 7- to 9-Year-Olds' Executive Function at the Levels of Task Performance and Neural Processing.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- How attention and working memory work together in the pursuit of goals: The development of the sampling-remembering trade-off.Developmental review : DR · 2025Article
- Acute Effect of Cognitive Compromise during Physical Exercise on Self-Regulation in Early Childhood Education.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Adaptiveness in proactive control engagement in children and adults.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
- External rewards and positive stimuli promote different cognitive control engagement strategies in children.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
- Encouraging performance monitoring promotes proactive control in children.Developmental science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Monitoring progression towards one's goals is essential for efficient cognitive control. Immature performance monitoring may contribute to suboptimal cognitive control engagement in childhood, potentially explaining why children engage control reactively even when proactive control would be more effective. This study investigated whether encouraging children to actively monitor their performance results in more mature control engagement. Electroencephalography data were collected while children and adults performed a flanker task in three conditions in which they were provided no feedback, standard feedback, or were asked to estimate their own feedback. Both age groups accurately estimated their own feedback. Critically, feedback estimation promoted online performance monitoring and proactive engagement of attention and inhibition during the flanker period in children. These findings indicate that proactive control engagement in childhood can be effectively supported by encouraging performance monitoring.
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