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Shlomov, Ilana; Levit-Binnun, Nava; Horowitz-Kraus, Tzipi – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
This study aimed to explore the effect of a mindfulness-based curriculum designed especially for preschoolers on facets of executive functions. Fifty-one preschoolers were randomly assigned to either a mindfulness and kindness curriculum (MC) or an active control dialogic reading program (DR). A battery of behavioral and neurophysiological tests…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Altruism
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Horowitz-Kraus, Tzipi – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
This review paper aims to define the involvement of Executive Functions (EF) in reading fluency in typically developing children and those with reading difficulties (RD)/dyslexia using neuroimaging and cognitive measurements. The data presented in this review demonstrate how training reading fluency with EF principles improved reading fluency and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Reading Fluency, Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia
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Horowitz-Kraus, Tzipi; DiCesare, Christopher; Kiefer, Adam W. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2018
Dyslexia, or reading difficulty (RD), is characterized by slow, inaccurate reading and accompanied by deficit in executive functions (EF) and altered functional connectivity (FC) in the related networks (i.e., cingulo-opercular). Individuals with RD also present with altered oculomotor gaze patterns that include longer fixation times. The…
Descriptors: Correlation, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Ability, Reading Difficulties