Tamara Walczak-Kozłowska, Aleksandra Mańkowska, Michał Harciarek
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Abstract
This longitudinal study examined changes in the efficiency of the attentional system during the transition from preschool to school in children born very prematurely. Seventy-one Polish children participated: 34 born before 32 weeks of gestation (47.1% boys) and 37 full-term peers (48.6% boys). The Attention Network Task—Child Version was administered at ages 5 and 6. At age 5, very preterm children showed reduced efficiency in alerting and orienting compared to full-term children. By age 6, alerting efficiency improved in the preterm group, and no longer differed from the control group. However, group differences in attentional orienting persisted at the follow-up assessment at age 6. These findings suggested partial improvement in attentional functioning in very preterm children during early development, with persistent differences in attentional orienting compared to full-term peers.
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The British Journal of Developmental Psychology publishes full-length, empirical, conceptual, review and discussion papers, as well as brief reports, in all of the following areas: - motor, perceptual, cognitive, social and emotional development in infancy; - social, emotional and personality development in childhood, adolescence and adulthood; - cognitive and socio-cognitive development in childhood, adolescence and adulthood, including the development of language, mathematics, theory of mind, drawings, spatial cognition, biological and societal understanding; - atypical development, including developmental disorders, learning difficulties/disabilities and sensory impairments;
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