A Journal Article Report

Processing Speed in the 1st Year of Life
Background
In earlier studies it has been suggested that individual differences in processing speed has
its roots in infancy. Also in those studies it was suggested that preterm infants were significantly
slower with processing and memory skills than full-term infants. The study that was done in this paper was to prove whether or not infants of preterm and full-term pregnancies had any effect on their processing speed and memory abilities. Several aspects of attention were also tested.…