Executive functions (Neuropsychology)
THE EFFECTS OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS AND THEORY OF MIND ON SEMANTIC FLUENCY IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
... Executive functions (EF) are a complex cognitive construct composed of several com- ponents such as working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibitory ...of executive functions we used a ...
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Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Executive Functions: Challenges and Perspectives
... keywords: executive function, mental dis- orders and rehabilitation in a database (PubMed), spe- cific journals and books which were published until De- cember ...aging, executive functions in the ...
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EEG neurofeedback for executive functions in children with neurodevelopmental challenges
... Executive functions develop rapidly during childhood (from about the age of six years) and adolescence ...does executive control typically improve during this time, but the nature of these ...
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Direct and indirect influences of executive functions on mathematics achievement
... between executive functions and factual knowledge, procedural skill and conceptual understanding were assessed across four different age groups; 8–9-year-olds, 11–12- year-olds, 13–14-year-olds and ...that ...
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Exploring the Relationships between Executive Functions and The Big Five Personality Traits using the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functioning-Adult Form
... of executive function to demonstrate similar correlations between executive function and the Big Five personality ...of executive function. Also, many of the executive function measures were ...
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Evidence for a role of executive functions in learning biology
... Elkovitch, Young, & Clark, 2010). Rhodes et al. (submitted) reported correlations between planning ability and both performance on a generic science exam and on a chemistry specific assessment. Linear regression ...
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Intrusive Thoughts and Executive Functions in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
... involving executive functions [8] ...impaired executive functions in patients with OCD [11]. Executive functions correspond to a set of processes involved in facilitating ...
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Checking behaviours, prospective memory and executive functions
... Importantly, no relationship was shown between prospective memory sub-scales and inhibitory function. This is consistent with an argument advanced by McDaniel and Einstein (2000), that prospective memory involves ...
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Executive functions predict conceptual learning of science
... cognitive functions are related to science learning in children and ...cognitive functions, known as executive functions, in science achievements and ...‘central executive’ that ...
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The cooking task: making a meal of executive functions
... Executive functions are higher-order cognitive processes associated with frontal brain networks essential for goal-directed behavior and include planning, temporal sequencing, and goal- attainment ...
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Computer-based assessment of the executive functions in children
... different executive deficits; the full range of executive functions have yet to be investigated; and there may be quantitative rather than qualitative differences between disordered and normally ...
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Developmental trajectories of executive functions in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
... Contrary to our second hypothesis, we found no rela- tionship between EF measures and adaptive functioning scores. It is possible that the absence of significant relationship is at least partially explained by our choice ...
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Relationship between Cerebral Imaging and Executive Functions in Egyptian Elderly
... between executive functions and left sided hemip- legia due to non hemorrhagic supratentorial infarction in elderly ...assessment, executive functions assessment using, block design test, ...
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Executive Functions in Early Adulthood: Data for the Controlled Animal Fluency Test
... between executive functions and intelligence there has some efforts to determine which aspects of intelligence, as described by the CHC theory of cognitive ability, are most closely related to ...
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Investigating the effects of caffeine on executive functions using traditional Stroop and a new ecologically valid virtual reality task, the Jansari assessment of Executive Functions (JEF©)
... executive functions; however the findings from the present study are able to provide further evidence to support caffeine’s effects on executive functioning processes and also indicate which specific ...
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Executive functions and the generation of “Random” sequential responses: a computational account
... putative executive function of memory monitoring and updating – the sequences so generated were far from ...different executive functions involved in the random generation ...
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Cognitive-executive functions of brain frontal lobe in aged adults
... Method: This cross sectional study with categorical random sampling was conducted on 150 elderly people in Qom Province in 2007 (Iran- Qom). Research instrument included mini-mental state examination (MMSE) and clinical ...
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The development of social and executive functions in late adolescence and early adulthood
... these executive function ...whether executive functions significantly predicted social cognition in abstinent ecstasy ...that executive functions predict social cognition in these ...
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Is it possible to promote executive functions in preschoolers? A case study in Brazil
... Executive functions (EF) provide top-down control of thoughts, emotions, and ...and Executive Functions in a classroom context over four and a half ...
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Selective impairment in executive functions: A test of the selective executive deficit hypothesis in adults with treatment-discontinued phenylketonuria
... between functions associated with the lateral PFC and those associated with orbital and medial areas ...of executive functions have been shown to be separate from online processing (Owen, Morris, ...
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