The Elusive Nature of Executive Functions: A Review of our Current Understanding

By M. Jurado, Monica Rosselli. Neuropsychology Review, 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Neuropsychological measures of executive function and antisocial behavior: A meta-analysis (2011, background): “No overarching or widely accepted conceptual framework of EF has been developed and there continues to be disagreement about the processes thought to be involved in EF (Royall et al. 2002; Stuss and Knight 2002; Burgess 1997; Miyake et al. 2000; Jurado and Rosselli 2007; Salthouse 2005).”
The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions: Four General Conclusions (2012, neutral): “Assessing Individual Differences in EFs EF is a challenging topic to study: It is not only elusive to define (Jurado & Rosselli, 2007) but also difficult to measure.”
Annual Research Review: On the relations among self-regulation, self-control, executive functioning, effortful control, cognitive control, impulsivity, risk-taking, and inhibition for developmental psychopathology (2016, neutral): “Applying the EF concept to young children has been facilitated by child-specific reviews (Diamond, 2013; Garon, Bryson, & Smith, 2008; Jurado & Rosselli, 2007), conceptual models (Diamond, 2013; Wiebe et al., 2011; Zelazo, Carter, Reznick, & Frye, 1997), and measures (Garon et al., 2008; Willoughby…”
The Potential for School-Based Interventions That Target Executive Function to Improve Academic Achievement (2015, background): “As others have noted, this makes it extremely difficult to synthesize the literature in a meaningful way (Fuhs & Day, 2010; Garon, Bryson, & Smith, 2008; Jurado & Rosselli, 2007; McClelland & Cameron, 2012; Morrison & Grammer, in press).”
Executive Functions after Age 5: Changes and Correlates (2009, background): “Beginning in the 7th decade of life impairments are evident on a wide variety of tasks—such as attentional control, response inhibition, planning, set shifting, and verbal fluency—that share the common thread of requiring executive abilities (Jurado & Rosselli, 2007).”
A primer on investigating the after effects of acute bouts of physical activity on cognition (2019, background): “…operations that facilitate goal-directed interactions with the environment through problem solving, resisting temptations or distractions, and maintaining control over actions (Meyer & Kieras, 1997; Norman & Shallice, 1986; but see Jurado & Rosselli, 2007 for further discussion of this construct).”
Effects of Early Life Stress on Cognitive and Affective Function: An Integrated Review of Human Literature (2010, background): “(Jurado and Rosselli 2007; Marsh et al. 2008, Shaw et al. 2008).”
A Latent Variable Approach to Determining the Structure of Executive Function in Preschool Children (2012, background): “…& Lee, 2006) as well as their school readiness and achievement (Müller, Liebermann, Frye, & Zelazo, 2008); and c) impairments in EF are involved in different developmental disorders (Jurado & Rosselli, 2007; O’Hearn, Asato, Ordaz, & Luna, 2008; Willcutt, Doyle, Nigg, Faraone, & Pennington, 2005).”
Examining the effects of active versus inactive bilingualism on executive control in a carefully matched non-immigrant sample (2015, positive): “This problem has also been referred to as task impurity: An executive control task does not only measure executive functions but also includes non-executive components (such as type of stimuli or processing speed) that affect performance (Jurado & Rosselli, 2007).”
Correlates of Perceived Physical Activity Transitions during the COVID‐19 Pandemic among Canadian Adults (2020, background): “Planning can be trained as a skill (Allan, Sniehotta, & Johnston, 2013), but it also has a cognitive component that aligns with one’s executive functioning (Garcia-Barrera, 2019; Jurado & Rosselli, 2007).”
Executive function in the first three years of life: precursors, predictors and patterns (2016, background): “…the control of attention and motor responses, resistance to interference, and delay of gratification (Carlson, Mandell & Williams, 2004; Diamond, 2013; Jurado & Rosselli, 2007), or, as Barkley puts it “those self-directed actions needed to choose goals and to create, enact, and sustain actions…”