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Silvia A. Bunge – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2024
There is a vast literature on "executive functioning," or the control of one's thoughts and actions in pursuit of a goal. This broad construct is conceptualized as comprising multiple executive functions (EFs) that support academic achievement and other important life outcomes. However, there is a lack of consensus regarding what,…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Developmental Psychology, Neurosciences, Cognitive Psychology
Xiaoliang Zhu; Yixin Tang; Jiaqi Lu; Minyuan Song; Chunliang Yang; Xin Zhao – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
Mathematical ability is a crucial component of human cognitive function, which is defined as the ability to acquire, process, and store mathematical information. While many studies have documented a close relationship between elementary school children's inhibitory control and their mathematical ability, existing empirical evidence remains…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Elementary School Students, Inhibition, Self Control
Lillie Moffett; Christina Weiland; Meghan P. McCormick; JoAnn Hsueh; Catherine Snow; Jason Sachs – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Prior research has demonstrated the importance of young children's executive functioning (EF) skills for their success in schooling and beyond. However, the field lacks an understanding of how children's EF skills manifest in context. In the present study, we relate children's classroom off-task behavior to their EF skills.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Preschool Children, Time on Task, Executive Function
Nellie van den Bos; Suzanne Houwen; Marina Schoemaker; Sara Rosenblum – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study tests a handwriting model for children and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) that displays the relationships between handwriting process and product characteristics, and the predictors of these characteristics. Structural Equation Modelling was used to test the model for children and youth with ASD (n = 50) and typically…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Handwriting
Lenard A. Adler; Deepti Anbarasan; Taylor Sardoff; Terry Leon; Richard Gallagher; Caleb A. Massimi; Stephen V. Faraone – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2024
Objective: To examine the effects of triple beaded mixed amphetamine salts (TB MAS) on ADHD and executive dysfunction symptoms throughout the day in adults with DSM-5 ADHD. Method: This was a 6 week, single-blind, placebo-lead in trial of TB MAS (12.5-37.5 mg/day); all participants received 2 weeks of single-blind placebo); one individual was a…
Descriptors: Adults, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Drug Therapy, Executive Function
Lucas G. Gago-Galvagno; Stephanie E. Miller; Natalia A. Mancini; Ailin C. Simaes; Angel M. Elgier; Susana C. Azzollini – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Although executive functions (EFs) have been identified as a cornerstone of cognitive development, knowledge of this fundamental ability in children is based primarily on research with North American and Western European samples of middle to high socioeconomic status (SES). In this article, we highlight advances in research on developmental EFs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Children, Cultural Context
Omid Khatin-Zadeh; Danyal Farsani – Cogent Education, 2024
In this article, we introduce the notion of "motion simulation hinge" and discuss its role in mental simulation of previously-experienced motion events and also mental simulation of scientific concepts in terms of motion events. Motion simulation hinge is defined as a static imaginary object or area around which or relative to which a…
Descriptors: Motion, Simulation, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
Andy C . Y. Tse; Venus H. L. Liu; Paul H. Lee; David I. Anderson; Kimberley Dawn Lakes – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Physical exercise is widely reported beneficial to executive functions in children with autism spectrum disorder. However, its impact on self-regulation in the population remains unknown. This study is to test whether two types of physical exercise (cognitively engaging vs non-cognitively engaging) benefited self-regulation and whether the social,…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Self Management, Executive Function, Physical Activities
Jessica Blume; Chathurika S. Dhanasekara; Chanaka N. Kahathuduwa; Ann M. Mastergeorge – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Atypical connectivity patterns have been observed for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), particularly across the triple-network model. The current study investigated brain-behavior relationships in the context of social skills and executive function profiles for ASD youth. We calculated connectivity measures from diffusion tensor…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Executive Function, Interpersonal Competence, Youth
Omid Khatin-Zadeh; Hassan Banaruee; Danyal Farsani – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
In this paper, we discuss the role of executive functions in shifting between symbolic and situational mathematical representations. Through the process of inhibition, an abstract representation is separated from concrete features and represented in terms of abstract symbols. This is a shift from a situational representation to a symbolic one.…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Mathematical Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Orthographic Symbols
Van Biesen, D.; Van Damme, T.; Pineda, R. C.; Burns, J. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Our aim was to identify the suitability of three assessment tools (i.e., Flanker test, Updating Word Span, and Color Trails Test) for future inclusion in the classification process of elite Paralympic athletes with intellectual disability and to assess the strength of the relation between Executive function (EF) and intelligence. Cognitive and EF…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Inclusion, Executive Function, Intelligence
Cirino, Paul T. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
The goal of this work is to provide a framework for understanding the relationship between executive function (EF) to reading and other academic achievements to promote future work in this area. After briefly reviewing extant theoretical and empirical support about what is known in this area, we then more deeply evaluate the construct of EF…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Academic Achievement, Reading Achievement, Educational Research
Emery Eugene Clayson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Executive Functions are a collection of higher order brain functions. Nevertheless, there exists much confusion on what they are and how they function. This dissertation explores the history, theory, and application of the Executive Functions as they apply to school psychologists. Topics such as the current leading theories of the Executive…
Descriptors: Executive Function, School Psychologists, School Psychology, Theories
Matthew Arnold; Rebecca Netson; Andrey Vyshedskiy – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Prefrontal synthesis (PFS) is a component of constructive imagination. It is defined as the process of mentally juxtaposing objects into novel combinations. For example, to comprehend the instruction "put the cat under the dog and above the monkey," it is necessary to use PFS in order to correctly determine the spatial arrangement of the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Acquisition, Children, Executive Function
Esther Janse; Chen Shen; Esther de Kerf – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: In a previous publication, we observed that maximum speech performance in a nonclinical sample of young adult speakers producing "alternating" diadochokinesis (DDK) sequences (e.g., rapidly repeating "pataka") was associated with cognitive control: Those with better cognitive switching abilities (i.e., switching…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Speech Impairments, Psychomotor Skills, Cognitive Ability