Comparative survey of go/no-go results to identify the inhibitory control ability change of Japanese children

Bibliographic Data

ID19536713
AuthorsKoji Terasawa (Nagano University, corresponding author), Hisaaki Tabuchi (Nagano University), Hiroki Yanagisawa (0000-0002-3421-5240, Meiji Yasuda Life Foundation of Health and Welfare), Akitaka Yanagisawa (Matsumoto Junior College), Kikunori Shinohara (Toyo University), Terasawa Saiki (Shinshu University), Saiki Terasawa, Osamitsu Saijo (Nippon Sport Science University), Takeo Masaki (Nippon Sport Science University)
Year2014
Volume8
Issue1
Pages14
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBioPsychoSocial Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-0759 • E-ISSN: 1751-0759
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/1751-0759-8-14
PMID25061475
PMCIDPMC4109780
OpenAlexW2166988410
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited2

This research, conducted in 1998 and 2008, uses go/no-go data to investigate the fundamentals of cognitive functioning in the inhibitory control ability of Japanese children. 844 subjects from kindergarten to junior high school participated in go/no-go task experiments. Performance of go/no-go tasks, which are frequently used to investigate response inhibition, measures a variety of cognitive components besides response inhibition. With normal brain development, the ability to inhibit responses improves substantially in adolescence. An increase over time in the error rate during the go/no-go tasks of subjects of the same age indicates that these processes are not functioning properly. Comparisons between the 1998 and 2008 data revealed several differences in error rates. In 2008, there were increases in the number of errors in groups from each age range. The comparison also revealed that overall error rates peaked at later ages in the 2008 subjects. Taken together, these results show changing conditions in the inhibitory function of the prefrontal cortex. However, the reason for these changing conditions remains unclear. While a lifestyle questionnaire revealed several differences in factors such as bedtimes and hours spent watching TV, analysis did not reveal a significant correlation

Audiology · Cognition · Correlation · Developmental psychology · Go/no go · Inhibitory control · Prefrontal cortex · Response inhibition · Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder · Medicine · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience · Psychology

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