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Rattat, Anne-Claire; Chevalier, Nicolas – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
The present study investigated the role of executive functions in the development of two aspects of timing: temporal reproduction and comparison. Children aged 7 and 10 years and young adults were asked to either reproduce target durations (i.e., reproduction task) or judge the similarity of two target durations (i.e., comparison task). These…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Executive Function, Time, Children
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Veneziano, Edy; Bartoli, Eleonora – First Language, 2022
This work is based on previous studies showing that a short conversational intervention (SCI) focusing on the causes of the story events is effective in promoting the causal and mental content of children's narratives. In these studies, however, not all the children improved their narratives after the SCI). The present study examined individual…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Personal Narratives, Story Telling, Executive Function
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Potard, C.; Henry, A.; Pochon, R.; Kubiszewski, V.; Combes, C.; Brouté, V.; Roy, A. – Journal of School Violence, 2021
The aim of the current study was to examine the associations between different types of executive functions (EFs) and bullying involvement in adolescent boys and girls. A self-report questionnaire was administered to 385 adolescents (mean age = 12.6 years) from nine junior high schools in France. Participants were divided into four bullying…
Descriptors: Bullying, Correlation, Executive Function, Evidence Based Practice
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Lubin, Amélie; Regrin, Emmanuelle; Boulc'h, Laetitia; Pacton, Sébastien; Lanoë, Céline – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2016
Executive functions (EFs; working memory [WM], inhibition, and shifting) are widely known to play a critical role in school achievement. Among these EFs, WM appears to be implicated in numeracy and literacy. The contribution of inhibition and shifting to school achievement is less clear. Given the existing divergences in the literature and the…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Skills
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Potocki, Anna; Sanchez, Monique; Ecalle, Jean; Magnan, Annie – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
This article presents two studies investigating the role of executive functioning in written text comprehension in children and adolescents. In a first study, the involvement of executive functions in reading comprehension performance was examined in normally developing children in fifth grade. Two aspects of text comprehension were…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Children, Adolescents, Reading Difficulties