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Direct linkFelipe Pedraza; Bence C. Farkas; Teodóra Vékony; Frederic Haesebaert; Romane Phelipon; Imola Mihalecz; Karolina Janacsek; Royce Anders; Barbara Tillmann; Gaën Plancher; Dezso Németh – npj Science of Learning, 2024
The ability of the brain to extract patterns from the environment and predict future events, known as statistical learning, has been proposed to interact in a competitive manner with prefrontal lobe-related networks and their characteristic cognitive or executive functions. However, it remains unclear whether these cognitive functions also possess…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Statistics, Executive Function, Relationship
Ann Folker; Christina Bertrand; Yelim Hong; Laurence Steinberg; Natasha Duell; Lei Chang; Laura Di Giunta; Kenneth A. Dodge; Sevtap Gurdal; Daranee Junla; Jennifer E. Lansford; Paul Oburu; Concetta Pastorelli; Ann T. Skinner; Emma Sorbring; Marc H. Bornstein; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong; Liane Peña Alampay; Suha M. Al-Hassan; Dario Bacchini; Kirby Deater-Deckard – Developmental Science, 2025
Executive functioning (EF) is an important developing self-regulatory process that has implications for academic, social, and emotional outcomes. Most work in EF has focused on childhood, and less has examined the development of EF throughout adolescence and into emerging adulthood. The present study assessed longitudinal trajectories of EF from…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Adolescents, Young Adults, Age Differences
Hernández Finch, Maria E.; Trammell, Beth; Hulse, Asia R.; Finch, William H.; Wildrick, Aimee; Floyd, Elizabeth F.; Pittenger, Jenna; McIntosh, David E. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Understanding the relationship between executive functioning and its connection to working memory and adaptive functioning can inform planning and employment efforts. This study explored the relationship between memory and adaptive functioning with a sample of Autistic youths/young adults. Participant mean age was 21.3 (SD = 3.0). Of the 22…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Short Term Memory, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adolescents
Freda Jia Xin Jong; Alvin Lai Oon Ng; Cheng Kar Phang; Safa Omran; Siew Li Teoh – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2025
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are secular trainings shown to enhance cognitive function, but their effectiveness among tertiary students has not been critically evaluated. This review synthesized evidence from randomized controlled trials on the impact of MBIs on cognitive improvement in tertiary students. Databases including Medline and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Intervention, College Students, Cognitive Ability
Frédéric Thériault-Couture; Célia Matte-Gagné; Annie Bernier – Developmental Science, 2025
Executive functions (EFs) emerge in the first years of life and are essential for many areas of child development. However, intraindividual developmental trajectories of EF during toddlerhood and their associations with ongoing development of language skills remain poorly understood. The present three-wave study examined these trajectories and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Toddlers, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Peng Peng – Grantee Submission, 2023
The current review of the role of executive function (EF) in reading provides a brief summary of analyses with a large-scale longitudinal dataset and a meta-analysis, along with proposing a framework for designing EF training studies. The 1st study, based on latent growth models with structured residuals, demonstrated a longitudinal reciprocal…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4
Peng Peng – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
The current review of the role of executive function (EF) in reading provides a brief summary of analyses with a large-scale longitudinal dataset and a meta-analysis, along with proposing a framework for designing EF training studies. The 1st study, based on latent growth models with structured residuals, demonstrated a longitudinal reciprocal…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4
Download full textde Vreeze-Westgeest, Mirjam G. J.; Vogelaar, Bart – Education Sciences, 2022
This study examined auditive and visual working memory and metacognitive knowledge in 92 gifted children (aged between eight and twelve), utilising a pre-test-training-post-test design, known as the cognitive training design. This approach was used to examine the working memory and metacognitive knowledge of gifted children concerning the…
Descriptors: Gifted, Elementary School Students, Cognitive Development, Metacognition
Kaylyn Van Deusen; Mark A. Prince; Madison M. Walsh; Lina R. Patel; Miranda E. Pinks; Anna J. Esbensen; Angela John Thurman; Leonard Abbeduto; Courtney Oser; Lisa A. Daunhauer; Deborah J. Fidler – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
Executive function (EF) is frequently an area of vulnerability in conditions associated with intellectual disability, like Down syndrome (DS). However, current EF evaluation approaches are not designed for children with underlying neurodevelopmental conditions and may not demonstrate construct validity due to interpretational confounds. The…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Down Syndrome, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Young Children
Amanallah Soltani; Deborah J. Fidler; Lina Patel; Kellie Voth; Anna J. Esbensen – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
This study explored how caregiver-reported executive functioning domains, assessed by the BRIEF2 at baseline, predicted behavioral challenges reported by caregivers using the CBCL six months later. The sample included 94 youth with Down syndrome, aged 6 to 18 years. Results of hierarchical regression analyses revealed that, after controlling for…
Descriptors: Youth, Children, Adolescents, Down Syndrome
McGuckian, Thomas B.; Wilson, Peter H.; Johnston, Rich D.; Rahimi-Golkhandan, Shahin; Piek, Jan; Green, Dido; Rogers, Jeffrey M.; Maruff, Paul; Steenbergen, Bert; Ruddock, Scott – Child Development, 2023
This longitudinal study modeled children's complex executive function (EF) development using the Groton Maze Learning Task (GMLT). Using a cohort-sequential design, 147 children (61 males, 5.5-11 years) were recruited from six multicultural primary schools in Melbourne and Perth, Australia. Race/ethnicity data were not available. Children were…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Executive Function, Elementary School Students
Alyssa P. Lawson; Richard E. Mayer – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Immersive virtual reality (IVR) is a new technology that could motivate learners, but also could contain distracting elements that increase cognitive demands on learners. In contrast, learning with conventional media, such as a narrated slideshow could be less motivating, but also less distracting. Objectives: This experiment…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Individual Differences, Learning, Executive Function
Taewon Kim; Hakjoo Kim; Benjamin A. Philip; David L. Wright – npj Science of Learning, 2024
The primary motor cortex (M1) is crucial for motor skill learning. We examined its role in interleaved practice, which enhances retention (vs. repetitive practice) through M1-dependent consolidation. We hypothesized that cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (ctDCS) to M1 would disrupt retention. We found that ctDCS reduced retention…
Descriptors: Perceptual Motor Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Retention (Psychology)
Waite, Jane; Beck, Sarah R.; Powis, Laurie; Oliver, Chris – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2023
In this study, we focus on Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTS) to explore the associations between executive function deficits and repetitive behaviors. Thirty individuals with RTS completed direct assessments of inhibition, working memory and set-shifting. Informants completed repetitive behavior and executive function questionnaires. Repetitive…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Repetition, Behavior Problems, Genetic Disorders
Scotti, Paul S.; Maxcey, Ashleigh M. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
Directed forgetting is a laboratory task in which subjects are told to remember some information and forget other information. In directed forgetting tasks, participants are able to exert intentional control over which information they retain in memory and which information they forget. Forgetting in this task appears to be mediated by intentional…
Descriptors: Memory, Executive Function, Recognition (Psychology), Intention
