In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of some of the issues and findings in
developmental work on emotion regulation. The authors begin with a definition of emotion …

Event-related fMRI was employed to characterize differences in brain activation between
children ages 8–12 and adults related to two forms of cognitive control: interference …

OBJECTIVE:: To investigate the developmental trajectory of response inhibition and, more
specifically, whether there is a dissociation of function in the prefrontal cortex over the …

Background: Executive function, particularly behavioral inhibition, has been implicated as a
core deficit specific to Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) whereas rapid …

A modification of the stop-signal task was used to investigate the development of selective
inhibitory control. A group of 317 participants, age 6 to 82 years, performed a visual choice …

Background: We examined infancy and toddler‐age precursors of impulsivity and inattention
in school‐age children. Children (50 boys, 39 girls) had been participants since infancy in …

Individual differences in temperament, executive functioning, and pubertal maturation play
an important role in adolescent psychosocial outcomes, as do parenting and risk variables …

Background. Inhibitory deficits have been frequently reported in schizophrenia. Such deficits
are usually associated with activities of prefrontal cortex and related networks. An …

As an introduction to the special issue on neurocognitive factors underlying age effects, we
discuss a number of recent developments in the literature on aging. The classic distinction …

How do young children's typical levels of physical movement relate to their ability to inhibit
task-inappropriate behavioural responses? This question was investigated with a cross …