Title

Developing and validating tools to assess higher level cognition in children and adolescents

Authors and Researchers

BrainsCAN, Western University
Bobby Stojanoski, Western University
Marc Joanisse, Western University
Ryan Stevenson, Western University
Cambridge Brain Sciences Inc.

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Description

Collaborating with CBS, we will create a unique platform for understanding, detecting and predicting delays in cognition during the formative period from childhood to adolescence. The aim of this project is to develop and validate a battery of tests specifically for children and adolescents between the ages of 7 and 15 to measure various aspects of higher-level cognitive abilities. These include short-term and episodic memory, planning, reasoning, verbal abilities and executive functioning (those processes necessary to control behaviour, such as controlling attention and inhibition, working memory, reasoning and problem solving).

Publication Date

2019

Publisher

BrainsCAN

City

London

Keywords

Learning and learning disorders, Memory, Neurodevelopment

Disciplines

Neurosciences

Funding

Funding Program

BrainsCAN Accelerator Grant: Stimulus

Additional BrainsCAN Support

Human Cognition and Sensorimotor Core

Notes

Western Faculty, Group or Institution

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science

Industry Partner

Cambridge Brain Sciences Inc.