Home Enrichment Is Associated with Visual Working Memory Function in Preschoolers

IF 1.9 4区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Mind Brain and Education Pub Date : 2023-09-20 DOI:10.1111/mbe.12383

Christina Davidson, Line Caes, Yee Lee Shing, Courtney McKay, Eva Rafetseder, Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar

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Abstract

Abstract Home enrichment plays an important role in shaping children's development. In the current study, we inquired whether home enrichment was associated with pre‐schoolers' visual working memory (VWM) function, a critical cognitive system necessary for maintaining information for short periods of time. Home enrichment was assessed using an adapted version of the Home Observation Measurement of the Environment Interview. VWM behavior and brain function were collected as children engaged with a color change detection task. Home enrichment was associated with right‐lateralized fronto‐parietal engagement. Specifically, greater home enrichment was linked to increased activation in the right angular gyrus, important for working memory maintenance, and suppression in the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG), important for re‐orienting attention to distracting events. Critically, home enrichment‐related rIFG suppression was linked to better VWM performance. This work sheds light on potential mechanism(s) through which enrichment in homes might be involved with cognitive function during the preschool years.

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家庭充实对学龄前儿童视觉工作记忆功能的影响

家庭丰富对儿童的发展具有重要的影响。在本研究中，我们探讨了家庭充实是否与学龄前儿童的视觉工作记忆(VWM)功能有关，VWM功能是维持短时间信息所必需的关键认知系统。使用环境访谈的家庭观察测量的改编版本来评估家庭充实。在儿童参与颜色变化检测任务时，收集VWM行为和脑功能。家庭富集与右侧额顶叶接合有关。具体来说，更大的家庭富集与右角回的激活增加有关，右角回对维持工作记忆很重要，而右下额回(rIFG)的抑制对将注意力重新定向到分散注意力的事件很重要。关键的是，家庭富集相关的rIFG抑制与更好的VWM表现有关。这项工作揭示了潜在的机制，通过家庭的丰富可能与学龄前儿童的认知功能有关。

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Mind Brain and Education Multiple-

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3.50

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11.10%

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期刊介绍： Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE), recognized as the 2007 Best New Journal in the Social Sciences & Humanities by the Association of American Publishers" Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division, provides a forum for the accessible presentation of basic and applied research on learning and development, including analyses from biology, cognitive science, and education. The journal grew out of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society"s mission to create a new field of mind, brain and education, with educators and researchers expertly collaborating in integrating the variety of fields connecting mind, brain, and education in research, theory, and/or practice.