When less is more: the effects of prematurity on maternal attentional scaffolding and infant executive functioning

• Main Author: Ong, Jing Ting
• Other Authors: Victoria Leong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Prematurity; Executive function; Attentional scaffolding
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/175441
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Premature birth poses a neurobiological risk for poorer subsequent cognitive outcomes and heterogeneous developmental trajectories for executive functioning. Socio-environmental protective factors that may attenuate risks of negative outcomes include parental scaffolding. However, it is not well-...