Executive Function: Development Across the Life Span (Frontiers of Developmental Science)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (585 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138655554 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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As such, it is particularly sensitive to variations in environments and experiences, and there is growing evidence that it is susceptible to intervention – important because of its link to a wide range of important life outcomes. The second section presents insights into mechanisms of executive function, as provided by a variety of methodological approaches. Executive function is the set of higher-order cognitive processes involved in regulating attention, thoughts, and actions. The third and fourth sections review the current research evidence on specific factors that shape executive function’s development, focusing on normative (e.g., bilingualism, physical activity, cognitive training) and clinically relevant (e.g., substance use, neurodegenerative disease) developmental pathways.. Relative to other cognitive domains, its development is slow and decline begins early in late adulthood. The volume is made up of four sections. It begins with an overview of executive function’s typical development across the lifespan, providing a founda
She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute at the University of Alberta, Canada.Julia Karbach is a developmental psychologist who studies neurocognitive development and plasticity across the life span. She is a Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.. Wiebe is a developmental cogni
Rosario (Charo) Rueda, University of Granada, Spain‘This compendium serves as an introduction to research on executive functions, the set of basic cognitive processes that support goal-directed behavior. A variety of methods are featured, including behavioral, neuroimaging, and genetic research, as well as computational modeling. ‘This volume makes a superlative addition to the growing corpus of research on executive function. The chapters are brief and clearly written, and point the interest