The development of executive function in early childhood.

By Philip David Zelazo, Ulrich Müller,, Douglas Frye, Stuart Marcovitch, Gina Argitis, Janet J. Boseovski, Jackie K Chiang, Donaya Hongwanishkul, B. Schuster, A. Sutherland. 1991

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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• Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015, background): “Concerning the former, the ability to represent linguistic rules to guide and support flexible behavior has been proposed as a core part of executive functioning development during childhood (Zelazo, Craik, & Booth, 2004; Zelazo et al., 2003).”
• The Development of Graphophonological-Semantic Cognitive Flexibility and Its Contribution to Reading Comprehension in Beginning Readers (2010, methodology): “Sequential classification tasks such as those used in research on executive function (e.g., Zelazo and colleagues’ Dimensional Change Card-Sorting Task [Zelazo et al., 2003] or the Wisconsin Card-Sorting Task [Berg, 1948]) permit the examination of shifting by requiring individuals to switch sorting”
• Sources of variability in working memory in early childhood: A consideration of age, temperament, language, and brain electrical activity (2007, methodology): “Dimensional Change Card Sort The Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) has been used in the developmental literature to assess executive function and rule use in young children (Zelazo, Frye, & Rapus, 1996; Zelazo et al., 2003), and arguably requires the skills of focused attention, working memory, an”
• Executive function predicts school readiness in autistic and typical preschool children (2017, methodology): “The Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) task measured children’s setshifting ability (Zelazo et al., 2003).”
• Self-regulation and toxic stress: Foundations for understanding self-regulation from an applied developmental perspective (2015, background): “They are better able to match their behavior to the context because their thinking now allows them to integrate conflicting knowledge into a more complex rule system [78].”
• Building Links Between Early Socioeconomic Status, Cognitive Ability, and Math and Science Achievement (2017, background): “Executive function is commonly defined as working memory, inhibition, attention, and cognitive flexibility (Blair, Zelazo, Mark, & Greenberg, 2005), and it is thought to be related to problem-solving abilities, such as representation of a problem, planning, execution in solving a problem, and evalua”
• Relating effortful control, executive function, and false belief understanding to emerging math and literacy ability in kindergarten. (2007, result): “In contrast to Diamond's inhibitory account, Zelazo and colleagues (Zelazo et al., 2003; Zelazo, Frye, & Rapus, 1996; Zelazo & Mü ller, 2002) suggest that developmental increases in executive function generally , including inhibitory control, reflect advances in an underlying cognitive ability to…”