serval:BIB_76DF70F3F91D
Attentional networks efficiency in preterm children.
10.1017/S1355617709991032
000273579600014
19849881
Pizzo
R.
author
Urben
S.
author
Van Der Linden
M.
author
Borradori-Tolsa
C.
author
Freschi
M.
author
Forcada-Guex
M.
author
Hüppi
P.
author
Barisnikov
K.
author
article
2010
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
journal
16
1
130-137
Recent studies have reported specific executive and attentional deficits in preterm children. However, the majority of this research has used multidetermined tasks to assess these abilities, and the interpretation of the results lacks an explicit theoretical backdrop to better understand the origin of the difficulties observed. In the present study, we used the Child Attention Network Task (Child ANT; Rueda et al. 2004) to assess the efficiency of the alerting, orienting and executive control networks. We compared the performance of 25 preterm children (gestational age < or = 32 weeks) to 25 full-term children, all between 5(1/2) and 6(1/2) years of age. Results showed that, as compared to full-term children, preterm children were slower on all conditions of the Child ANT and had a specific deficit in executive control abilities. We also observed a significantly higher correlation between the orienting and executive control networks in the preterm group, suggesting less differentiation of these two networks in this population.
Attention networks
Inhibition
Orienting
Alerting
Prematurity
ANT
Low-Birth-Weight
Executive Functions
Preschool-Children
School-Age
Born Preterm
Older-Adults
Childhood
Outcomes
Brain
Performance
eng
60_published
true
peer-reviewed
University of Lausanne
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