Hot and cool executive function in childhood and adolescence: Development and plasticity

PD Zelazo, SM Carlson - Child development perspectives, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Executive function (EF), which refers to the more deliberate, top‐down neurocognitive
processes involved in self‐regulation, develops most rapidly during the preschool years …

A review on cognitive and brain endophenotypes that may be common in autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and facilitate the search …

NNJ Rommelse, HM Geurts, B Franke… - Neuroscience & …, 2011 - Elsevier
We propose to bring together the hitherto rather separate research fields of autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and argue that by …

Stability and change in executive function abilities from late adolescence to early adulthood: A longitudinal twin study.

NP Friedman, A Miyake, LJ Altamirano… - Developmental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Executive functions (EFs)—the higher level cognitive abilities that enable us to control our
own thoughts and actions—continue to develop into early adulthood, yet no longitudinal …

Social factors in the development of early executive functioning: A closer look at the caregiving environment

A Bernier, SM Carlson, M Deschênes… - Developmental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated prospective links between quality of the early caregiving
environment and children's subsequent executive functioning (EF). Sixty‐two families were …

Developmental trajectories in toddlers' self-restraint predict individual differences in executive functions 14 years later: a behavioral genetic analysis.

NP Friedman, A Miyake, JAL Robinson… - Developmental …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
We examined whether self-restraint in early childhood predicted individual differences in 3
executive functions (EFs; inhibiting prepotent responses, updating working memory, and …

The relation between television exposure and executive function among preschoolers.

AI Nathanson, F Aladé, ML Sharp… - Developmental …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
This study investigated the relations between television exposure during the preschool
years and the development of executive function (EF). Data were gathered from 107 parents …

Longitudinal associations between the quality of mother–infant interactions and brain development across infancy

A Bernier, SD Calkins, MA Bell - Child development, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to investigate if normative variations in parenting relate to brain
development among typically developing children. A sample of 352 mother–infant dyads …

Continuity of genetic and environmental influences on cognition across the life span: a meta-analysis of longitudinal twin and adoption studies.

EM Tucker-Drob, DA Briley - Psychological bulletin, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
The longitudinal rank-order stability of cognitive ability increases dramatically over the life
span. Theoretical perspectives differ in their emphasis on genetic mechanisms in explaining …

Improving executive functions in 5‐and 6‐year‐olds: Evaluation of a small group intervention in prekindergarten and kindergarten children

M Röthlisberger, R Neuenschwander… - Infant and Child …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Research suggests a central role of executive functions for children's cognitive and social
development during preschool years, especially in promoting school readiness …

Executive functions in early childhood: The role of maternal and paternal parenting practices

N Lucassen, R Kok… - British Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the association between mothers' and fathers' harsh parenting and
sensitive parenting practices and child's executive functions (EF) in early childhood in 607 …