Cognitive flexibility, the readiness with which one can selectively switch between mental
processes to generate appropriate behavioral responses, develops in a protracted manner …

Recent global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the growing
importance of children learning 21st-century skills for adaptation and flexibility. Competence …

Young children engage cognitive control reactively in response to events, rather than
proactively preparing for events. Such limitations in executive control have been explained …

Analogical reasoning is the cognitive skill of drawing relationships between representations,
often between prior knowledge and new representations, that allows for bootstrapping …

As they age, children tend to get more effective at regulating their behavior in complex
situations; this improvement in cognitive control is often interpreted as a shift from …

Alors que les fonctions exécutives ont longtemps été envisagées comme une entité
mystérieuse ne se manifestant qu'à partir de l'adolescence, il est désormais bien établi que …

Based on the Dual Mechanisms of Control theory, this study conducted in 5-and 6-year-olds,
tested for a possible shift between two modes of control, proactive vs. reactive, which differ in …

Attention control regulates efficient processing of goal‐relevant information by suppressing
interference from irrelevant competing inputs while also flexibly allocating attention across …

The current study tested the hypothesis that bilinguals rely on domain-general mechanisms
of executive control to achieve language control by asking if linguistic and nonlinguistic …

This study addressed the respective contributions of inhibition and working memory to two
underlying components of flexibility, goal representation (as assessed by mixing costs) and …