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The challenge in determining whether intelligence in infancy predicts performance in childhood and beyond rests in identifying measures that evaluate cognitive functioning from infancy through childhood. Information processing abilities, such as those related to attention, working memory, and processing speed, underlie performance in all cognitive tasks, including intelligence tests, and are therefore important indicators of intellectual ability that are evident at birth and persist for a lifetime (Baddeley, 2016; Müller & Kerns, 2015; Ristic & Enns, 2015).

Individuals who process information more efficiently are thought to acquire knowledge more quickly. This is true for infants as well as for older children and adults. Indeed, information processing capacities in infancy, such as attention, memory, and processing speed, have been shown to predict cognitive ability and intelligence through late adolescence.