Executive Functions: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved

By R. Barkley. 2012

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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, unknown): “A top-down form of attention, similar to endogenous attention and focused attention in other literatures Executive control: Synonym for top-down cognition, closely related to cognitive control and to EF Executive function: Partially independent, top-down cognitive functions involved in top-down cont”
Executive function in the first three years of life: precursors, predictors and patterns (2016, background): “…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 toward those goals”(Barkley, 2012, p. 60).”
Malleability, plasticity, and individuality: How children learn and develop in context1 (2019, background): “…skills to experiences of prolonged, unbuffered stress, as well as the importance and efficacy of intervening to intentionally develop self-regulation skills in children with impulsivity and attention issues (e.g., Barkley, 2012; Jimenez, Wade, Lin, Morrow, & Reichman, 2016; Shonkoff et al., 2012).”
Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning Influences on Middle School Mathematics Achievement (2017, background): “It is important to note that conceptions of academic SRL often overlap to some degree with other constructs frequently mentioned in the literature, including self-management (Briesch & Briesch, 2015), metacognition (Flavell, 1979), and executive functions (Barkley, 2012).”