ArticleChild development2020
Prenatal Risk Predicts Preschooler Executive Function: A Cascade Model.
Article in Child development, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Machine learning for outcome prediction in preterm infants: opportunities and challenges.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Contributions of prenatal risk factors and neonatal epigenetics to cognitive outcome in children born very preterm.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- The roles of familial transmission and smoking during pregnancy on executive function skills: A sibling-comparison study.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Testing a cascade model linking prenatal inflammation to child executive function.Behavioural brain research · 2022Article
- Intelligent wearable allows out-of-the-lab tracking of developing motor abilities in infants.Communications medicine · 2022Article
- Prenatal mother-father cortisol linkage predicts infant executive functions at 24 months.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Perinatal foundations of personality pathology from a dynamical systems perspective.Current opinion in psychology · 2021Review
- Cognitive Development and Brain Gray Matter Susceptibility to Prenatal Adversities: Moderation by the Prefrontal Cortex Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Gene Co-expression Network.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Little research has considered whether prenatal experience contributes to executive function (EF) development above and beyond postnatal experience. This study tests direct, mediated, and moderated associations between prenatal risk factors and preschool EF and IQ in a longitudinal sample of 1,292 children from the Family Life Project. A composite of prenatal risk factors (i.e., low birth weight, prematurity, maternal emotional problems, maternal prepregnancy obesity, and obstetric complications) significantly predicted EF and IQ at age 3, above quality of the postnatal environment. This relationship was indirect, mediated through infant general cognitive abilities. Quality of the postnatal home and child-care environments did not moderate the cascade model. These findings highlight the role of prenatal experience as a contributor to individual differences in cognitive development.
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