Learning-based cognitive control: developmental trajectories in children aged 5- to 14- years (opens in new tab)

Learning-based cognitive control (CC)—the ability to implicitly adapt control based on contextual regularities—has been studied in young, typically developing children, yet its developmental trajectory remains underexplored. This study examined how learning-based CC develops across childhood under increasing cognitive demands. Overall, 149 children aged 5–14 years (79 females, M = 9.1 ± 2.6) completed a modified Flanker task and a cued go-noGo task (“Addy”). Both tasks included a List-Wide Pr...