Executive function (EF) skills are neurocognitive skills that support the reflective, top-down
coordination and control of other brain functions, and there is neural and behavioral …

It has been demonstrated that executive functions play a significant role in different aspects
of the development of children. Development of language is also one of the most important …

Introduction: Executive function (EF) skills emerge in infancy and typically become more
effective and efficient throughout childhood and adolescence and into early adulthood …

Studies have suggested that language and executive function (EF) are strongly associated.
Indeed, the two are difficult to separate, and it is particularly difficult to determine whether …

Early childhood education is a field that includes practitioners in nursery schools,
elementary schools, Head Start centers, child care centers, family homes, and other …

The simple view of reading proposes that the development of reading comprehension in
early elementary school is best predicted by children's fluent decoding and oral language …

More than 40 years ago, Paul Meehl (1978) published a seminal critique of the state of
theorizing in psychological science. According to Meehl, the quality of theories had …

Background The phenomenon of multilingualism and its impact on child development are in
the spotlight of latter-day psychology, and of utmost importance both for theory and practice …

Humans vary in almost every dimension imaginable, and language is no exception. In this
article, we review the past research that has focused on individual differences (IDs) in first …

Using individual differences approaches, a growing body of literature finds positive
associations between musicality and language-related abilities, complementing prior …