Attentional focusing is the only effortful control subdomain associated with DLPFC activation when controlling for age and accuracy¶

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q3 i? Attentional focusing was the only aspect of effortful control associated with activation when controlling for age and accuracy (r(105) = -.208, p = .032), such that better attentional focusing was associated with less activation. → Quiñones-Camacho Laura E. 2019

Evidence¶

Quiñones-Camacho Laura E. 2019¶

Quiñones-Camacho Laura E., Fishburn Frank A., Camacho M. Catalina, Wakschlag Lauren S., Perlman Susan B. (2019). Cognitive flexibility-related prefrontal activation in preschoolers: A biological approach to temperamental effortful control. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6969345/

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Partial correlations controlling for accuracy and age found "being better able to focus attention was associated with less activation during the task" (r(105) = -.208, p = .032); other subdomains were not significant.

"Attentional focusing was the only aspect of effortful control associated with activation when controlling for age and accuracy (r(105) = -.208, p = .032; Fig. 4), such that being better able to focus attention was associated with less activation during the task."

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