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dc.contributor.authorMcKay, Courtneyen_UK
dc.contributor.authorShing, Yee Leeen_UK
dc.contributor.authorRafetseder, Evaen_UK
dc.contributor.authorWijeakumar, Sobanawartinyen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-06T01:17:34Z-
dc.date.available2021-02-06T01:17:34Z-
dc.date.issued2021-07en_UK
dc.identifier.othere13094en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/32245-
dc.description.abstractVisual working memory (VWM) is reliably predictive of fluid intelligence and academic achievements. The objective of the current study was to investigate individual differences in pre‐schoolers’ VWM processing by examining the association between behaviour, brain function and parent‐reported measures related to the child’s environment. We used a portable functional near‐infrared spectroscopy system to record from the frontal and parietal cortices of 4.5‐year‐old children (N=74) as they completed a colour change‐detection VWM task in their homes. Parents were asked to fill in questionnaires on temperament, academic aspirations, home environment, and life stress. Children were median‐split into a low‐performing (LP) and a high‐performing (HP) group based on the number of items they could successfully remember during the task. LPs increasingly activated channels in the left frontal and bilateral parietal cortices with increasing load, whereas HPs showed no difference in activation. Our findings suggest that LPs recruited more neural resources than HPs when their VWM capacity was challenged. We employed mediation analyses to examine the association between the difference in activation between the highest and lowest loads and variables from the questionnaires. The difference in activation between loads in the left parietal cortex partially mediated the association between parent‐reported stressful life events and VWM performance. Critically, our findings show that the association between VWM capacity, left parietal activation, and indicators of life stress is important to understand the nature of individual differences in VWM in pre‐school children.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherWileyen_UK
dc.relationMcKay C, Shing YL, Rafetseder E & Wijeakumar S (2021) Home assessment of visual working memory in pre-schoolers reveals associations between behaviour, brain activation and parent reports of life stress. Developmental Science, 24 (4), Art. No.: e13094. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13094en_UK
dc.rights© 2021 The Authors. Developmental Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en_UK
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_UK
dc.subjectfNIRSen_UK
dc.subjectHome testingen_UK
dc.subjectIndividual differencesen_UK
dc.subjectLife stressen_UK
dc.subjectPre‐school childrenen_UK
dc.subjectVisual Working Memoryen_UK
dc.titleHome assessment of visual working memory in pre-schoolers reveals associations between behaviour, brain activation and parent reports of life stressen_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.rights.embargodate2021-02-05en_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/desc.13094en_UK
dc.identifier.pmid33523548en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleDevelopmental Scienceen_UK
dc.citation.issn1467-7687en_UK
dc.citation.issn1363-755Xen_UK
dc.citation.volume24en_UK
dc.citation.issue4en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusVoR - Version of Recorden_UK
dc.citation.date01/02/2021en_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationPsychologyen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationGoethe University Frankfurten_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationPsychologyen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationPsychologyen_UK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000626774700001en_UK
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-85102293110en_UK
dc.identifier.wtid1702769en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0002-9816-8607en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0002-6931-4329en_UK
dc.date.accepted2021-02-01en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-02-01en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2021-02-05en_UK
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_UK
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local.rioxx.authorMcKay, Courtney|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorShing, Yee Lee|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorRafetseder, Eva|0000-0002-9816-8607en_UK
local.rioxx.authorWijeakumar, Sobanawartiny|0000-0002-6931-4329en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2021-02-05en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/|2021-02-05|en_UK
local.rioxx.filenamedesc.13094.pdfen_UK
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local.rioxx.source1467-7687en_UK
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