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Hill, LJB orcid.org/0000-0002-4069-5121, Shire, KA, Allen, RJ orcid.org/0000-0002-1887-3016 et al. (4 more authors) (2021) Large-scale assessment of 7-11-year-olds’ cognitive and sensorimotor function within the Born in Bradford longitudinal birth cohort study [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]. Wellcome Open Research, 6. 53. p. 53. ISSN 2398-502X
Abstract
Background: Cognitive ability and sensorimotor function are crucial aspects of children’s development, and are associated with physical and mental health outcomes and educational attainment. The current project forms part of the Born in Bradford (BiB) longitudinal birth-cohort study, and involved measuring sensorimotor and cognitive function in over 15,000 children aged 7-10 years. This paper describes the large-scale data collection process and presents initial analyses of the data, including the relationship between cognition/sensorimotor ability and age and task difficulty, and associations between tasks.
Method: Data collection was completed in 86 schools between May 2016 and July 2019. Children were tested at school, individually, using a tablet computer with a digital stylus or finger touch for input. Assessments comprised a battery of three sensorimotor tasks (Tracking, Aiming, & Steering) and five cognitive tasks (three Working Memory tasks, Inhibition, and Processing Speed), which took approximately 40 minutes.
Results: Performance improved with increasing age and decreasing task difficulty, for each task. Performance on all three sensorimotor tasks was correlated, as was performance on the three working memory tasks. In addition, performance on a composite working memory score correlated with performance on both inhibition and processing speed. Interestingly, within age-group variation was much larger than between age-group variation.
Conclusions: The current project collected computerised measures of a range of cognitive and sensorimotor functions at 7-10 years of age in over 15,000 children. Performance varied as expected by age and task difficulty, and showed the predicted correlations between related tasks. Large within-age group variation highlights the need to consider the profile of individual children in studying cognitive and sensorimotor development. These data can be linked to the wider BiB dataset including measures of physical and mental health, biomarkers and genome-wide data, socio-demographic information, and routine data from local health and education services.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Hill LJ et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | sensorimotor; cognition; cohort; longitudinal |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number MRC (Medical Research Council) Not Known |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 May 2021 15:38 |
Last Modified: | 13 May 2021 15:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | F1000 Research |
Identification Number: | 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16429.1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:173765 |
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