Within the scientific literature, the construct of executive function (EF) has received a huge
increase in attention over the past three decades. Its growing popularity is reflected in the …

Learners with Mild Disabilities is designed for use at the undergraduate and graduate levels
as the main text in courses addressing disabilities in the milder range of impairment …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

Among executive functions (EFs), research has highlighted specific inhibition difficulties in
preterm children. The present paper reviews and classifies the studies that assessed …

Introduction: The aim of neuropsychological assessment is to understand the multifaceted
relationship between behavior, cognition and brain organization. The main objective of this …

The study of the cognitive substrates of pragmatic disorders is a relatively recent
development in clinical pragmatics. This development has been ushered in by calls from …

This study aims to investigate the inhibition construct in preschool age children and to
examine how diverse inhibition dimensions may affect working memory task performance. A …

Sounds deviating from an otherwise repeated or structured sequence capture attention and
affect performance in an ongoing visual task negatively, testament to the balance between …

Children begin performing similarly to adults on tasks requiring executive functions in late
childhood, a transition that is probably due to neuroanatomical fine-tuning processes …

Inhibitory control is widely hypothesized to be the cornerstone of executive function in
childhood and the central deficit in a number of developmental disorders, including attention …