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Correction: Corrigendum: The effects of inhibitory control training for preschoolers on reasoning ability and neural activity

Authors :
Xinyi Zhu
Albert Ziegler
Qian Liu
Jiannong Shi
Source :
Scientific Reports
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.

Abstract

Inhibitory control (including response inhibition and interference control) develops rapidly during the preschool period and is important for early cognitive development. This study aimed to determine the training and transfer effects on response inhibition in young children. Children in the training group (N = 20; 12 boys, mean age 4.87 ± 0.26 years) played “Fruit Ninja” on a tablet computer for 15 min/day, 4 days/week, for 3 weeks. Children in the active control group (N = 20; 10 boys, mean age 4.88 ± 0.20 years) played a coloring game on a tablet computer for 10 min/day, 1–2 days/week, for 3 weeks. Several cognitive tasks (involving inhibitory control, working memory, and fluid intelligence) were used to evaluate the transfer effects, and electroencephalography (EEG) was performed during a go/no-go task. Progress on the trained game was significant, while performance on a reasoning task (Raven’s Progressive Matrices) revealed a trend-level improvement from pre- to post-test. EEG indicated that the N2 effect of the go/no-go task was enhanced after training for girls. This study is the first to show that pure response inhibition training can potentially improve reasoning ability. Furthermore, gender differences in the training-induced changes in neural activity were found in preschoolers.

Details

ISSN :
20452322
Volume :
6
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Scientific Reports
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....c3c6566de513e3ddf7edd7da9dc12c80
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20296