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Infant Information Processing in Relation to Six‐Year Cognitive Outcomes
Author(s) -
Rose Susan A.,
Feldman Judith F.,
Wallace Ina F.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1992.tb01684.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , intelligence quotient , cognition , cognitive development , object permanence , perception , neuroscience
As part of a longitudinal follow‐up of full‐terms and preterms, infant measures of information processing obtained at 7 months and 1 year were related to various 6‐year outcomes: general intelligence, language proficiency, early reading and quantitative skills, and several facets of perceptual organization ( N = 91). 7‐month Visual recognition memory (VRM) was associated with 6‐year performance in all domains, and 3 1‐year measures—VRM, cross‐modal transfer (CMT), and object permanence—were related to IQ and/or one or more specific outcomes (r's = .20 to .47). Many of the infant‐childhood relations remain significant even with IQ partialed. Additionally, 7‐month VRM and 1‐year CMT scores were lower for infants who, at 6 years, were considered at risk for learning disabilities. Overall, measures from the first year of life predicted both specific cognitive abilities and IQ at 6 years; to some extent, the specific abilities were predicted independently of IQ.