Relations between executive functions and academic outcomes in elementary school children: A meta-analysis.

JA Spiegel, JM Goodrich, BM Morris… - Psychological …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The primary goal of this study was to examine developmental patterns among the relations
between components of executive function (EF; working memory [WM], inhibitory control …

The unity and diversity of executive functions: A systematic review and re-analysis of latent variable studies.

JE Karr, CN Areshenkoff, P Rast, SM Hofer… - Psychological …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) has been frequently applied to executive function
measurement since first used to identify a three-factor model of inhibition, updating, and …

Review of the evidence on, and fundamental questions about, efforts to improve executive functions, including working memory

A Diamond, DS Ling - Cognitive and working memory training …, 2020 - books.google.com
Review of the evidence on, and fundamental questions about, efforts to improve executive
functions, including working memory Page 166 8 Review of the Evidence on, and Fundamental …

Unity and diversity of executive functions: Individual differences as a window on cognitive structure

NP Friedman, A Miyake - Cortex, 2017 - Elsevier
Executive functions (EFs) are high-level cognitive processes, often associated with the
frontal lobes, that control lower level processes in the service of goal-directed behavior …

Executive function and metacognition: Towards a unifying framework of cognitive self-regulation

CM Roebers - Developmental review, 2017 - Elsevier
Executive function and metacognition are higher-order cognitive processes that undergo
steady improvements throughout childhood. They are highly relevant to daily functioning in …

Advancing understanding of executive function impairments and psychopathology: bridging the gap between clinical and cognitive approaches

HR Snyder, A Miyake, BL Hankin - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Executive function (EF) is essential for successfully navigating nearly all of our daily
activities. Of critical importance for clinical psychological science, EF impairments are …

Process overlap theory: A unified account of the general factor of intelligence

K Kovacs, ARA Conway - Psychological Inquiry, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The most replicated result in the field of intelligence is the positive manifold, which refers to
an all-positive pattern of correlations among diverse cognitive tests. The positive manifold is …

A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence on the near-and far-transfer effects among children's executive function skills.

R Kassai, J Futo, Z Demetrovics… - Psychological Bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
In the present meta-analysis we examined the near-and far-transfer effects of training
components of children's executive functions skills: working memory, inhibitory control, and …

Why improving and assessing executive functions early in life is critical.

A Diamond - 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
To be successful in school or in one's career takes creativity, flexibility, self-control, and
discipline. Central to all those are executive functions (EFs), including mentally playing with …

[HTML][HTML] Neural substrates of early executive function development

A Fiske, K Holmboe - Developmental Review, 2019 - Elsevier
In the last decade, advances in neuroimaging technologies have given rise to a large
number of research studies that investigate the neural underpinnings of executive function …