During the last 2 decades, major advances have been made in understanding the
development of executive functions (EFs) in early childhood. This article reviews the EF …

Negative Priming (NP) is an influential paradigm in cognitive psychology that was originally
developed to measure attentional selection. Yet, up to the mid-1990s, a large number of …

ABSTRACTS The goals of this study were to (a) develop an empirically based model
regarding the development of fluent and automatic reading in the early elementary school …

Reactions to recently ignored stimuli are slowed down or more error prone when compared
to reactions to control stimuli. This so-called negative priming effect has been traditionally …

Preschoolers' lack of cognitive flexibility has often been attributed to perseverative
processing. This study investigates alternative potential sources of difficulty such as deficits …

This paper examined the relationship between creativity and ADHD symptomatology. First,
the presence of ADHD symptomatology within a creative sample was explored. Secondly …

The development of selective attention and associated self-regulatory processes was
assessed in young children, ages 4, 5, and 6, through the use of three alternative versions of …

Four experiments examined the development of negative priming (NP) in 3–5‐year‐old
children using as a measure of children's executive function (EF) the dimensional change …

Schoolchildren with better executive functioning skills achieve better mathematics results. It
is less clear how inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and working memory combine to predict …

Backgrounds: The relationship between linguistic difficulties and cognitive impairments in
children with developmental language disorders (DLDs) is receiving growing interest in …