Do “Frontal Tests” Measure Executive Function? Issues of Assessment and Evidence from Fluency Tests

By P. Rabbitt. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Performance on the A-not-B Task of Argentinean Infants from Unsatisfied and Satisfied Basic Needs Homes (2005, background): “When age-appropriate tasks demanding integration, effortful, formal and content novelty are available (Phillips, 1997), an increase in nonverbal executive competence in infant (Diamond, 1985, 2001a; Diamond & Goldman-Rakic, 1989; Welsh & Pennington, 1988) and preschool-aged children (Diamond et…”
The cognitive underpinnings of creative thought: A latent variable analysis exploring the roles of intelligence and working memory in three creative thinking processes (2013, background): “Studies of patients with frontal lobe damage indicate that executive functions are involved in fluently retrieving words that belong to a specified category (e.g., letter F, animals) (Martin, Wiggs, Lalonde, & Mack, 1994; Phillips, 1997).”
Executive functions in insight versus non-insight problem solving: An individual differences approach (2009, background): “Previous results regarding insight and executive loading Gilhooly and Murphy (2005) found a relationship between insight problem solving and the Figural Fluency task (Phillips, 1997).”
Executive functioning as a potential mediator of age-related cognitive decline in normal adults. (2003, background): “In fact, some researchers have suggested that executive functioning measures should not be expected to be reliable because they are designed to assess the ability to cope with novel problems, and the problems are no longer novel after the first administration (e.g., Burgess, 1997; Denckla, 1995; Low”
The role of prefrontal cortex in working-memory capacity, executive attention, and general fluid intelligence: An individual-differences perspective (2002, background): “The same appears to be true for Gf, at least with respect to proactive and output interference (Borkowski, 1965; Dempster & Corkill, 1999; E. Miller, 1984; Phillips, 1997, 1999).”
Divergent thinking: strategies and executive involvement in generating novel uses for familiar objects. (2007, result): “Empirical results also support the view that executive functions are involved in divergent production, and so it would be expected that divergent production of new uses would be correlated with performance on other executively loading tasks such as letter fluency (Phillips, 1997).”
A meta-analytic review of verbal fluency performance following focal cortical lesions. (2004, methodology): “…retrieval and recall as well as self-monitoring aspects of cognition (the participant must keep track of responses already given), effortful self-initiation, and inhibition of responses when appropriate (Crawford & Henry, in press; Perret, 1974; Phillips, 1997; Ruff, Light, Parker, & Levin, 1997).”