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Author : Julia Kontak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Hot Executive Function and Age Development During the Preschool Period written by Julia Kontak and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Alan Griffin
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
ISBN 13 : 9781433818264
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Executive Function in Preschool-age Children written by James Alan Griffin and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, top scientists from a variety of fields investigate the development of executive function (EF), a term that encompasses a range of mental processes that together regulate our social behavior and our cognitive and emotional well-being.
Author : Sam Goldstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461481066
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Executive Functioning written by Sam Goldstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning. Attention. Memory. Self-regulation. These and other core cognitive and behavioral operations of daily life comprise what we know as executive functioning (EF). But despite all we know, the concept has engendered multiple, often conflicting definitions and its components are sometimes loosely defined and poorly understood. The Handbook of Executive Functioning cuts through the confusion, analyzing both the whole and its parts in comprehensive, practical detail for scholar and clinician alike. Background chapters examine influential models of EF, tour the brain geography of the executive system and pose salient developmental questions. A section on practical implications relates early deficits in executive functioning to ADD and other disorders in children and considers autism and later-life dementias from an EF standpoint. Further chapters weigh the merits of widely used instruments for assessing executive functioning and review interventions for its enhancement, with special emphasis on children and adolescents. Featured in the Handbook: The development of hot and cool executive function in childhood and adolescence. A review of the use of executive function tasks in externalizing and internalizing disorders. Executive functioning as a mediator of age-related cognitive decline in adults. Treatment integrity in interventions that target executive function. Supporting and strengthening working memory in the classroom to enhance executive functioning. The Handbook of Executive Functioning is an essential resource for researchers, scientist-practitioners and graduate students in clinical child, school and educational psychology; child and adolescent psychiatry; neurobiology; developmental psychology; rehabilitation medicine/therapy and social work.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309324882
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.
Author : Laura Elizabeth Hlavaty
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (929 download)
Download or read book Executive Function in the Preschool Period written by Laura Elizabeth Hlavaty and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of executive function (EF) skills for optimal cognitive, behavioral, and emotional development is widely accepted. Researchers have suggested that deficits in EF may mediate many of the impairments seen in developmental disorders that emerge in childhood, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and specific language impairment (SLI). However, given the overlap in symptom presentation during the preschool period, the differential pattern of EF impairment coinciding with the specific diagnosis is not as well understood. Investigation of the pattern of EF strengths and weaknesses in preschool children with developmental disorders has been of interest. Traditional multivariate profile means analyses using the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function--Preschool Version (BRIEF-P; Gioia, Espy, & Isquith, 2003) revealed distinct patterns based on diagnosis in the preschool children. This study aims to determine whether the mean profiles for each group adequately represent diagnostic categories in a preschool population using exploratory hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA). HCA techniques group participants based on similarity of pattern shape and means, resulting in clusters of homogeneous groups independent of diagnostic grouping. Eighty-two children are included in the analyses: 57 diagnosed with developmental disorders (SLI: n=18; ADHD: n=21, ASD: n=18), and 25 typical controls. Following HCA methods, a 4-cluster solution was retained with each of the four diagnostic groups showing predominant membership across one of the clusters. Cluster 1 evidenced normative EF skills, Cluster 2 indicated EF impairments in cognitive domains, Cluster 3 demonstrated moderate EF impairments in specific behavioral and cognitive domains, and Cluster 4 revealed the most severe impairments across all EF domains. Separate parent report measures also reveals differential patterns of language, behavioral, and socioemotional functioning across the clusters. Increasing our understanding of EF profiles can provide important information for improving the current classification system for preschoolers with developmental disorders and aid in the development of more efficacious early intervention programs.
Author : Donna Coch
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1606239686
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain written by Donna Coch and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizing the breadth of current knowledge on brain behavior relationships in atypically developing children, this important volume integrates theories and data from multiple disciplines. Leading authorities present their latest research on specific clinical problems, including autism, Williams syndrome, learning and language disabilities, ADHD, and issues facing infants of diabetic mothers. In addition, the effects of social stress and maltreatment on brain development and behavior are thoroughly reviewed. Demonstrating the uses of cuttingedge methods from developmental neuroscience, developmental psychology, and cognitive science, the contributors emphasize the implications of their findings for real-world educational and clinical practices.
Author : Judith M. Rumsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139476750
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Neuroimaging in Developmental Clinical Neuroscience written by Judith M. Rumsey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern neuroimaging offers tremendous opportunities for gaining insights into normative development and a wide array of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. Focusing on ontogeny, this text covers basic processes involved in both healthy and atypical maturation, and also addresses the range of neuroimaging techniques most widely used for studying children. This book will enable you to understand normative structural and functional brain maturation and the mechanisms underlying basic developmental processes; become familiar with current knowledge and hypotheses concerning the neural bases of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders; and learn about neuroimaging techniques, including their unique strengths and limitations. Coverage includes normal developmental processes, atypical processing in developmental neuropsychiatric disorders, ethical issues, neuroimaging techniques and their integration with psychopharmacologic and molecular genetic research approaches, and future directions. This comprehensive volume is an essential resource for neurologists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, and radiologists concerned with normal development and developmental neuropsychiatric disorders.
Author : Wolfgang Schneider
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135614407
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Young Children's Cognitive Development written by Wolfgang Schneider and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical part of early childhood development is the development of "theory of mind" (ToM), which is the ability to take the perspective of another person. The main purpose of this book is to discuss and integrate findings from prominent research areas in developmental psychology that are typically studied in isolation, but are clearly related. Two examples are whether executive functions represent a precursor of ToM or whether ToM understanding predicts the development of executive functions, and to what extent children's level of verbal ability and their working memory are important predictors of performance on both executive functioning and ToM tasks. The chapters in this book give a detailed account of the major outcomes of this research. First, the state of the art concerning current understanding of the relevant constructs (working memory, ToM, executive functioning) and their developmental changes is presented, followed by chapters that deal with interactions among the core concepts. Its main focus is on theoretically important relationships among determinants of young children's cognitive development--considered to be "hot" issues in contemporary developmental psychology. Based on presentations made at an international workshop, this book is divided into two parts. In the first part, five teams of researchers present theoretical analyses and overviews of empirical evidence regarding the core constructs of memory, executive functions, and ToM. The next part deals with the interplay among the core concepts outlined in Part I with developmental trends in the interaction.
Author : Veronica Hopwood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Maternal Responsiveness and Children's Hot and Cold Executive Functions written by Veronica Hopwood and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of mother-child interactions in free-play or teaching settings have shown that maternal responsiveness is positively associated with the development of children's executive functioning. However, because most of these studies used global ratings of maternal responsiveness, less is known about the specific aspects of responsiveness that are associated with children's executive functions during the preschool years. Given that responsiveness is not global in its efficacy, determining which aspects of responsiveness are associated with later individual differences in preschoolers' behaviors is key for moving the field forward. Due to this, the present study used molecular coding to explore the impact of maternal responsiveness during a mother-busy task on preschoolers' hot and cold executive functions at two times in development. In this study, executive functions at age six were predicted from maternal responsiveness at age four, controlling for executive functions at the first time point. One hundred and thirty eight low-income, Latina mothers of preschool children participated. When the children were 4-years-old, mothers were observed in a "mother-busy" situation where children had to wait to open a present while their mothers completed a questionnaire. All child verbal and nonverbal bids to elicit maternal attention were coded. Mother responses to child bids were coded into six categories, three that showed sufficiently high frequency for analysis: high turning toward (responses that encouraged further interaction), low turning toward (responses that acknowledged the bid, but did not encourage further interaction), and turning away (ignoring the child). After 18 months, mothers and their children returned to the laboratory to complete hot and cold executive functions measures. Multiple regressions predicting changes in hot executive functioning showed that high turning toward responses to verbal attention bids were positively associated with changes in hot executive functioning over time, whereas low turning toward responses to verbal bids and turning away responses to nonverbal bids were negatively associated with changes in executive functioning. No other relationships between parenting and children's executive functioning were significant. Implications of these findings for understanding maternal influences on the development of executive functioning in early childhood are considered.
Author : Philip David Zelazo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Development of Executive Function in Early Childhood written by Philip David Zelazo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El control de pensamiento y acción en los niños cambia considerablemente desde los primeros años, sin embargo, la naturaleza de esos procesos no ha sido nunca muy clara. Los autores examinan las circunstancias que contribuyen a mejorar esa función en niños de 3 y 4 años.
Author : Paulo A. Graziano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Developmental Trajectories of "hot" Executive Functions Across Early Childhood written by Paulo A. Graziano and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It has been established that children's executive functioning (EF) skills play an important role in psychopathology (e.g., AD/HD) as well as social and academic competence. However, other than the examination of genetic factors, there remains a limited number of studies examining extrinsic (e.g., parenting) and temperamental factors that contribute to individual differences in the development of EF. The current study examined the role of maternal behavior and emotion regulation in the development of children's "hot" EF of attentional control, which consists of sustained attention and inhibitory control. Hierarchical linear modeling analyses indicated significant growth in both sustained attention and inhibitory control across the toddlerhood to early childhood period. Maternal overcontrol or intrusiveness at age 2 was found to negatively predict initial levels of children's sustained attention as well as children's inhibitory control at age 5. Maternal warmth/responsiveness was also a significant positive predictor of children's inhibitory control at age 5. Emotion regulation at age 2 was found to positively predict initial levels of children's sustained attention and negatively predict children's impulsivity at age 5. These findings are discussed in terms of how maternal and temperamental factors may facilitate the development of attentional control."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
Author : Holly Alliger Ruff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195350456
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Attention in Early Development written by Holly Alliger Ruff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Introduction. 2. Constructs and Measures. 3. Looking and Visual Attention: Overview and Developmental Framework. 4. Scanning, Searching, and Shifting Attention. 5. Development of Selectivity. 6. Development of Attention as a State. 7. Focused Visual Attention and Resistance to Distraction. 8. Increasing Independence in the Control of Attention. 9. Attention in Learning and Performance. 10. Individual Differences in Attention. 11. Early Manifestations of Attention Deficits. 12. Individuality and Development. 13. Recapitulation. References. Author Index. Subject Index
Author : Adele Diamond
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Prefrontal Cortex Cognitive Deficits in Children Treated Early and Continuously for PKU written by Adele Diamond and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phenylketonuria (PKU) is the leading biochemical cause for mental retardation in children. The study suggests levels of tyrosine reaching the brain are directly relational to the cognitive functions in the prefrontal cortex.
Author : Clancy Blair
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135067244
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Measurement of Executive Function in Early Childhood written by Clancy Blair and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade, a rising interest has emerged in aspects of the broad construct of executive function (EF) in childhood. This has transpired as research has discovered that the development of EF is particularly rapid during early childhood, and that the healthy development of EF appears to play a key role in children’s developing social competence and academic and social readiness to attend school. The articles presented in this special issue help advance our understanding of the development of EF, as well as the challenges researchers face when attempting to characterize an aspect of cognition in very young children. Ultimately, this special issue illuminates the many ways in which children come to exhibit age-appropriate levels of social and cognitive competence.
Author : Philip David Zelazo
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Executive Function :. written by Philip David Zelazo and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yusuke Moriguchi
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889198006
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Development of executive function during childhood written by Yusuke Moriguchi and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive function refers to the goal-oriented regulation of one’s own thoughts, actions, and emotions. Its importance is attested by its contribution to the development of other cognitive skills (e.g., theory of mind), social abilities (e.g., peer interactions), and academic achievement (e.g., mathematics), and by the consequences of deficits in executive function (which are observed in wide range of developmental disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism). Over the last decade, there have been growing interest in the development of executive function, and an expanding body of research has shown that executive function develops rapidly during the preschool years, with adult-level performance being achieved during adolescence or later. This recent work, together with experimental research showing the effects of interventions targeting executive function, has yielded important insights into the neurocognitive processes underlying executive function. Given the complexity of the construct of executive function, however, and the multiplicity of underlying processes, there are often inconsistencies in the way that executive function is defined and studied. This inconsistency has hampered communication among researchers from various fields. This Research Topic is intended to bridge this gap and provide an opportunity for researchers from different perspectives to discuss recent advances in understanding childhood executive function. Researchers using various methods, including, behavioral experiments, neuroimaging, eye-tracking, computer simulation, observational methods, and questionnaires, are encouraged to contribute original empirical research. In addition to original empirical articles, theoretical reviews and opinions/perspective articles on promising future directions are welcome. We hope that researchers from different areas, such as developmental psychology, educational psychology, experimental psychology, neuropsychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, computational science, etc., will be represented in the Research Topic.
Author : Kimberly Andrew Espy
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135066728
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Using Developmental, Cognitive, and Neuroscience Approaches To Understand Executive Control in Young Children written by Kimberly Andrew Espy and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven articles in this special issue represent a sampling of the exciting findings that are beginning to emerge from studies of executive control in young children. They demonstrate the multidisciplinary approaches to study cognition in young children that include application of cognitive, neuroscience, and developmental paradigms in typically developing youngsters, as well as those affected by clinical conditions, such as traumatic brain injury, exposure to low levels of lead in the environment, and prematurity. Although much work remains to be done, these study results are illustrative of the dynamic work in this exciting development period.
