The case for the development and use of “ecologically valid” measures of executive function in experimental and clinical neuropsychology

By Paul W. Burgess, N. Alderman, C. Forbes, A. Costello, L. M. Coates, Deirdre R. Dawson, Nicole D. Anderson, Sam Joseph Gilbert, Iroise Dumontheil, S. Channon. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation (2008, background): “Since musical improvisation is an extraordinarily complex human behavior, we felt that it should be examined using paradigms that, while amenable to experimental constraint, are of high ecological validity (as argued by Burgess and colleagues; see [18,19].”
Neuropsicología de las funciones ejecutivas (2010, background): “…del constructo, sobre todo en lo que concierne a la distinción entre la medición de operaciones (p.e., incrementos del tiempo de reacción asociado a los ensayos incongruentes del Stroop) vs. funciones (no poder inhibir un comentario jocoso en una discusión con nuestro jefe) (Burgess et al., 2006).”
Classification of Traumatic Brain Injury for Targeted Therapies (2008, neutral): “However, neuropsychological tests have been criticized for their lack of “ecological validity” (Burgess et al., 2006); that is, performance on a test often bears little relationship to the person’s day-to-day function.”
Executive Function: Implications for Education. NCER 2017-2000. (2016, background): “Ten years ago, Burgess et al. (2006) highlighted the limitations of using traditional performancebased assessments of EF for clinical purposes and emphasized the value of developing a new class of EF assessments that better approximated real world contexts.”
Gamification of Cognitive Assessment and Cognitive Training: A Systematic Review of Applications and Efficacy (2016, background): “In a similar vein, cognitive assessment has been accused of being ecologically invalid [60].”
Neuropsychological measures of executive function and antisocial behavior: A meta-analysis (2011, background): “EF measures are generally designed to capture clinically significant performance in experimental settings (Chaytor, Schmitter-Edgecombe, and Burr 2006; Chan et al. 2008; Burgess et al. 2006).”
Virtual Reality for Enhanced Ecological Validity and Experimental Control in the Clinical, Affective and Social Neurosciences (2015, methodology): “…a long history in clinical neuroscience (Wilson, 1993; Franzen and Wilhelm, 1996; Sbordone and Long, 1996; Chaytor and Schmitter-Edgecombe, 2003; Burgess et al., 2006; Chaytor et al., 2006; Sbordone, 2008) and has most recently been discussed in the affective and social neurosciences (Ochsner,…”