Influences on inhibitory controls: Can caregiving cause long-term effects on academic success?

       Parents have attempted to provide their children with the best foundation to ensure academic success. Whether that be the school they attend, their parenting style, or even providing after-school tutoring, these are all far too common. This leads to many questions about what truly makes the most significant impact on providing a firm.            Researchers such as Dr. Martha Ann Bell have attempted to answer similar questions. Her article "Relations between Frontal EEG Maturation and Inhibitory Control in Preschool in the Prediction of Children's Early Academic Skills" focused on the prefrontal cortex's executive function, working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility. Exposing maternal caregiving to an infant is related to inhibitory control; it alerts the relationship between inhibitory controls and academic success. The study defined  positive caregiving  as responsive to the infant's cues, such ...