Due to increasing ease of use and ability to quickly collect large samples, online
behavioural research is currently booming. With this popularity, it is important that …

Objective There has been widespread concern that so-called lockdown measures, including
social distancing and school closures, could negatively impact children's mental health …

Executive functions (EFs) are essential for early childhood development, and effective
programs to improve EFs in preschool education are becoming increasingly crucial. There is …

Our performance on cognitive tasks fluctuates: the same individual completing the same task
will differ in their response's moment-to-moment. For decades cognitive fluctuations have …

Developmental theories often assume that specific environmental risks affect specific
outcomes. Canonical Correlation Analysis was used to test whether 28 developmental …

Measuring selective attention in a speeded task can provide valuable insight into the
concentration ability of an individual, and can inform neuropsychological assessment of …

A child's socio-economic environment can profoundly affect their development. While
existing literature focusses on simplified metrics and pair-wise relations between few …

Despite substantial research efforts to increase engagement in physical activity (PA),
children are not sufficiently active. Dual-process theories suggest that PA behavior …

Neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders are often associated with coordination
problems. Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) constitutes a specific …

As predictive motor control is an important index of neuromotor development and
maturation, we developed two touchscreen tablet-based tests of this function. Our aim was to …