Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin.

By Naomi P. Friedman, Akira Miyake, S. Young, J. Defries, R. Corley, J. Hewitt. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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The role of componential analysis, categorical hypothesising, replicability and confirmation bias in testing for bilingual advantages in executive functioning (2014, background): “Thus, bilingualism does not simply enhance one or more of the genetically determined components of executive processing (EP; Friedman et al., 2008), but rather qualitatively alters how the brain instantiates domain-general abilities in monitoring, shifting and inhibitory control, (4) This…”
Neuropsicología de las funciones ejecutivas (2010, background): “Aunque disociables, los tres componentes ejecutivos están moderadamente correlacionados y comparten bases genéticas (Friedman et al., 2008).”
Relations between Executive Function and Academic Achievement from Ages 5 to 17 in a Large, Representative National Sample (2011, background): “…suggests that EF constitutes distinct, yet related, components, with inhibition, updating of working memory, and shifting being foundational components (Friedman et al., 2008; Huizinga et al., 2006; Lehto, Juujärvi, Kooistra, & Pulkkinen, 2003; Miyake et al., 2000; van der Sluis et al., 2007).”
Design for a working memory. (2009, neutral): “Evidence pointing more toward a distinction between declarative and procedural WM comes from a series of studies of Miyake and colleagues (Friedman et al., 2006, 2008; Miyake et al., 2000).”
Between Persistence and Flexibility: The Yin and Yang of Action Control (2015, result): “two systems were also indicated in the later genetic study (Friedman et al., 2008), the third, inhibitory system was found to be more of a general characteristic of action control rather than a separable factor equivalent to updating and shifting.”
Executive function in the first three years of life: precursors, predictors and patterns (2016, background): “The evidence presented below suggests that in the first 3 years of life, Updating and Shifting in particular are closely intertwined, dependent as they are on the emerging executive attention network (see Box 1).”
Executive functions in decision making: An individual differences approach (2010, methodology): “Thus, inhibition may play a major role in ADR (cf. Friedman et al., 2008).”
Training working memory: Limits of transfer (2013, background): “Indeed, some studies have even suggested that WM has a strong genetic component (Friedman et al., 2008).”
Developmental Changes in Working Memory, Updating, and Math Achievement. (2016, background): “…of training success notwithstanding, with findings that individual differences in executive functioning are attributable to genetic factors (Friedman et al., 2008) and perhaps resistant to change, more efforts are needed to examine how pedagogical practices can be made to accommodate WM…”
Are bilingual advantages dependent upon specific tasks or specific bilingual experiences? (2014, background): “The best models of the data include both common and componential levels which is why Miyake and Friedman proposed that EF has both unity and diversity.”
The structure of executive function in 3-year-old children (2010, positive): “…EF has proven to be tremendously productive during adulthood (Friedman & Miyake, 2004; Miyake et al., 2000), adolescence (Friedman et al., 2007; Friedman et al., 2008), and childhood (Huizinga, Dolan, & van der Molen, 2006; Lehto, Juujärvi, Kooistra, & Pulkkinen, 2003) and has resulted in…”
Planning in young children: A review and synthesis (2011, background): “…we will highlight three critical sub-components that have emerged as important: inhibitory control, memory updating (usually referred to as working memory), and task switching (Best & Miller, 2010; Friedman et al., 2008; Garon et al., 2008; Miyake, Friedman, Emerson, Witzki, & Howerter, 2000).”