A unitary executive function predicts intelligence in children

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Executive function and metacognition: Towards a unifying framework of cognitive self-regulation (2017, background): “, 2006; Lee, Pe, Ang, & Stankov, 2009), and this pattern generalizes across a wide age range, from 7-year-olds to adolescents, and for both fluid and crystallized intelligence (Brydges et al., 2012; Friedman et al., 2006; Lee et al., 2009).”
Executive Function: Implications for Education. NCER 2017-2000. (2016, unknown): “Conversely, at least two other recent studies that involved elementary school-aged children concluded that EF was best characterized by a single undifferentiated factor (Brydges et al. 2012; Xu et al. 2013).”
The differentiation of executive functions in middle and late childhood: A longitudinal latent-variable analysis (2014, methodology): “Furthermore, it was hypothesised that children in mid-childhood would display a unitary executive function (Brydges et al., 2012), whereas children in late childhood would display increased diversity of executive functions (Lehto et al., 2003).”