NEPSY - Second Edition

“…Knock and Tap: This task was taken from the NEPSY neuropsychological test battery (Kemp, Kirk, & Korkman, 2001;Korkman, Kirk, & Kemp, 2000) to assess attention and effortful control in four-year-olds. The experimenter engaged the child in the manual motor sequence task.…”

Section: Gross Motor Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Slip of the tongue: Implications for evolution and language development

Forrester

2015

Cognition

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a b s t r a c tA prevailing theory regarding the evolution of language implicates a gestural stage prior to the emergence of speech. In support of a transition of human language from a gestural to a vocal system, articulation of the hands and the tongue are underpinned by overlapping left hemisphere dominant neural regions. Behavioral studies demonstrate that human adults perform sympathetic mouth actions in imitative synchrony with manual actions. Additionally, right-handedness for precision manual actions in children has been correlated with the typical development of language, while a lack of hand bias has been associated with psychopathology. It therefore stands to reason that sympathetic mouth actions during fine precision motor action of the hands may be lateralized. We employed a fine-grained behavioral coding paradigm to provide the first investigation of tongue protrusions in typically developing 4-year old children. Tongue protrusions were investigated across a range of cognitive tasks that required varying degrees of manual action: precision motor action, gross motor action and no motor actions. The rate of tongue protrusions was influenced by the motor requirements of the task and tongue protrusions were significantly right-biased for only precision manual motor action (p < .001). From an evolutionary perspective, tongue protrusions can drive new investigations regarding how an early human communication system transitioned from hand to mouth. From a developmental perspective, the present study may serve to reveal patterns of tongue protrusions during the motor development of typically developing children.

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“…The neuropsychological performance was evaluated at 5 years chronological age (?0-2 months) by a psychologist using the Finnish standardization edition of NEPSY II [17,18]. Age-appropriate subtests were selected from the NEPSY II to form a comprehensive set of tests that represent various domains of neurocognitive development.…”

Section: Nepsy IImentioning

confidence: 99%

Relations between brain volumes, neuropsychological assessment and parental questionnaire in prematurely born children

Lind

Haataja

Rautava

et al. 2009

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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The objective of this study is to assess the relationship between brain volumes at term equivalent age and neuropsychological functions at 5 years of age in very low birth weight (VLBW) children, and to compare the results from a neuropsychological assessment and a parental questionnaire at 5 years of age. The study group included a regional cohort of 97 VLBW children and a control group of 161 children born at term. At term equivalent age, brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed on the VLBW children, and analysed for total and regional brain volumes. At 5 years of age, a psychologist assessed the neuropsychological performance with NEPSY II, and parents completed the Five to fifteen (FTF) questionnaire on development and behaviour. The results of the control group were used to give the age-specific reference values. No significant associations were found between the brain volumes and the NEPSY II domains. As for the FTF, significant associations were found between a smaller total brain tissue volume and poorer executive functions, between a smaller cerebellar volume and both poorer executive functions and motor skills, and, surprisingly, between a larger volume of brainstem and poorer language functions. Even after adjustment for total brain tissue volume, the two associations between the cerebellar volume and the FTF domains remained borderline significant (P = 0.05). The NEPSY II domains Executive Functioning, Language and Motor Skills were significantly associated with the corresponding FTF domains. In conclusion, altered brain volumes at term equivalent age appear to affect development still at 5 years of age. The FTF seems to be a good instrument when used in combination with other neuropsychological assessment

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Slip of the tongue: Implications for evolution and language development

Relations between brain volumes, neuropsychological assessment and parental questionnaire in prematurely born children

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