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Relations Between Physiological and Cognitive Regulatory Systems: Infant Sleep Regulation and Subsequent Executive Functioning
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The aim of this report was to investigate the prospective links between infant sleep regulation and subsequent executive functioning (EF). The authors assessed sleep regulation through a parent sleep diary when children were 12 and 18 months old (N = 60). Child EF was assessed at 18 and 26 months of age. Higher proportions of total sleep occurring at night time, at both 12 and 18 months, were related to better performance on executive tasks, especially those involving a strong impulse control component. Most relations held above family socioeconomic status, prior mental development and concurrent verbal ability. These findings add to previous results with school-age children in suggesting that sleep favors the development of higher order cognitive functions requiring prefrontal cortex involvement.
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“higher percentages of time spent sleeping during the night relative to the day at 18 months were associated with concurrent working memory scores at 18 months as well as with impulse control at 26 months (Bernier et al. 2010).”
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“For example, in a study of infants and toddlers, greater proportions of time spent sleeping during the night relative to the day at 12 months was associated with better performance on tasks of impulse control and conflict-executive functioning (a factor score comprised of working memory, set shifting, and inhibitory control) at 26 months; higher percentages of time spent sleeping during the night”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bernier, A., Carlson, S. M., Bordeleau, S., & Carrier, J.
- Affiliations
- Université de Montréal (CA)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bernier, Annie
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2010-11-01
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1739-1752
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- OpenAlex
- W2099204097
- Cited by
- 226
- References
- 98
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 6.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
- Keywords
- executive function, sleep duration, nocturnal sleep, impulse control, prefrontal cortex development, cognitive development, sleep physiology, socioeconomic status, verbal ability
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Child Development, Cognition, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Medical Records, Neuropsychological Tests, Parents, Prospective Studies, Sleep, Social Class, Verbal Learning, Behavior Control, Executive Function
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