Infant and Preschool Psychological Development
Open Access
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Food and Nutrition Bulletin
- Vol. 14 (3), 1-14
- https://doi.org/10.1177/156482659201400302
Abstract
The INCAP longitudinal study (1969–1977) was designed to test the hypothesis that nutrition supplementation improves the cognitive test performance of infant and preschool children. The hypothesis was based on a series of arguments about effects of supplementation on brain development that have not been supported by subsequent research. Both early reports of these studies and current re-examination of the data suggest effects during the preschool years, but of modest magnitude.Keywords
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