@misc{10481/102768,
year = {2025},
month = {2},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/102768},
abstract = {Executive control (EC) emerges in the first year of life, with the ability to inhibit prepotent responses (inhibitory control [IC]) and
to flexibly readapt (cognitive flexibility [CF]) steadily improving. Simultaneously, electrophysiological brain activity undergoes
profound reconfiguration, which has been linked to individual variability in EC. However,most studies exploring this relationship
have used relative/absolute power and tasks that combine different executive processes. In addition, brain activity conflates
aperiodic and oscillatory activity,which hinders the interpretation of the relationship between power and cognition. In the current
study, we used the Early Childhood Inhibitory Touchscreen Task (ECITT) to examine the development of EC skills from 9 to 16
months in a longitudinal sample, and related performance of the task to resting-state EEG (rs-EEG) power, separating oscillatory
and aperiodic activity. Our results showed improvement in IC but not in CF with age. In addition, alpha and theta oscillatory
activity were concurrent (9-mo.) and longitudinal predictors of CF in toddlerhood, whereas the aperiodic exponent of the EEG
signal did not contribute to EC. These findings demonstrate the relevance of oscillatory brain activity for cognitive development
and provide an early brain marker for the early development of EC.},
organization = {Grant PID2023-148921NB-I00 funded by the Spanish Research Agency},
organization = {Grant PID2023-148921NB-I00. MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and FEDER, UE},
organization = {Maria
de Maestu Unit of Excellence program financed by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033},
organization = {UCE-PP2023-11 of the University of Granada},
organization = {Predoctoral fellowship in Neuroscience (2019) funded by Fundacion Tatiana Guzman el Bueno},
publisher = {Wiley},
keywords = {attention},
keywords = {EEG},
keywords = {executive control},
title = {Oscillatory but not aperiodic frontal brain activity predicts the development of executive control from infancy to toddlerhood},
doi = {10.1111/desc.13613},
author = {Rico Picó, Josué and Garcia-de-Soria Bazan, M. del Carmen and Conejero Barbero, Ángela and Moyano Flores, Pablo Sebastián and Hoyo, Ángela and Ballesteros Duperon, María Ángeles and Holmboe, Karla and Rueda Cuerva, María Del Rosario},
}