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Dimensions of executive functioning: Evidence from children
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This article investigated dimensions of executive functioning in 8- to 13-year-old children and found that age correlated with performance on most individual EF measures as well as Shifting and WM.Abstract:
This study investigated dimensions of executive functioning in 8- to 13-year-old children. Three tasks from the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB), two tasks from the NEPSY battery and some additional executive function (EF) tests were administered to 108 children. In line with earlier work, modest correlations among EF measures were obtained (r < .4). Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses yielded three interrelated factors, which resembled those obtained by Miyake et al. (2000) and which were—with some reservations—labelled Working Memory (WM), Inhibition and Shifting. Age correlated with performance on most individual EF measures as well as Shifting and WM. The present findings are in agreement with contemporary views as to the simultaneous unity and diversity of EFs.read more
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Executive function in preschoolers: A review using an integrative framework.
TL;DR: The authors focus on 3 EF components: working memory, response inhibition, and shifting and conceive of the central executive as a central attention system that is involved in all EF component operations.
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A Developmental Perspective on Executive Function
John R. Best,Patricia H. Miller +1 more
TL;DR: The development of the foundational components of EF-inhibition, working memory, and shifting are outlined and research needed for constructing a developmental framework encompassing early childhood through adolescence is suggested.
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Age-related change in executive function: developmental trends and a latent variable analysis.
TL;DR: The results suggest that EF component processes develop at different rates, and that it is important to recognize both the unity and diversity ofEF component processes in studying the development of EF.
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Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin
Naomi P. Friedman,Akira Miyake,Susan E. Young,John C. DeFries,Robin P. Corley,John K. Hewitt +5 more
TL;DR: A multivariate twin study of 3 executive functions (inhibiting dominant responses, updating working memory representations, and shifting between task sets), measured as latent variables, examined why people vary in these executive control abilities and why they are correlated but separable from a behavioral genetic perspective.
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Executive dysfunction in autism
TL;DR: It is concluded that more detailed research is needed to fractionate the executive system in autism by assessing a wide range of executive functions as well as their neuroanatomical correlates in the same individuals across the lifespan.
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Executive Functions and Developmental Psychopathology
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