Psychologists at the University of Warwick said that the five-minute game played with 20-month-olds could be used for follow-up assessments to predict attention regulation and learning in children.
The raisin was placed underneath a plastic opaque cup within easy reach.
After three ‘training runs’ the children were asked to wait until they were told they could touch and eat the raisin, which was after 60 seconds.
Researchers found that babies who were born very prematurely were more likely to take the raisin before the minute was up.
Senior author Professor Dieter Wolke from the university’s Department of Psychology and Warwick Medical School, said, ‘An easy, five-minute raisin game task represents a promising new tool for follow-up assessments to predict attention regulation and learning on pre-term and term born children. The results also point to potential innovative avenues to early intervention after preterm birth.’
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