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Locomotor expertise predicts infants' perseverative errors.

Sarah E Berger¹

¹Department of Psychology, The College of Staten Island, Graduate Center, City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA. sberger@mail.cuny.csi.edu

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Infant inhibition develops with motor skills. More complex tasks increase perseverative errors, especially in walkers compared to crawlers, impacting cognitive resources.

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Area of Science:

Developmental Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Motor Development

Background:

Inhibition is crucial for cognitive development.
Locomotion provides a context for studying infant inhibition.
Previous research suggests motor experience influences cognitive abilities.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the development of inhibition in infants within a locomotor context.
To examine the impact of task difficulty on perseverative errors.
To explore the relationship between locomotor experience and inhibitory control.

Main Methods:

Within-subjects design using A-not-B tasks with varying locomotor demands.
Experiments involved walking and crawling 13-month-old infants.
Analysis of perseverative errors in relation to task difficulty and locomotor experience.

Main Results:

Perseverative errors were more frequent in high-demand conditions than low-demand conditions.
Walking infants showed more perseveration than crawling infants.
Infants with more locomotor experience exhibited less perseveration, suggesting improved inhibitory control.

Conclusions:

Locomotor development is linked to enhanced inhibitory control in infants.
Cognitive capacity and attentional resources play a role in infant perseveration.
Motor expertise facilitates cognitive flexibility by freeing up attentional resources.