Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, Second edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 574-603

  Zelazo, Philip David ^a   Müller, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

"hot" affective aspects of EF, associated with ventral and medial parts of prefrontal cortex (VM PFC); Confirmatory factor analytic studies of EF in children; Developmental research on hot and cool EF EF first emerging early in development; EF construct, intended to capture psychological abilities whose impairment is presumed to underlie the manifest deficits; EF in typical development; Executive function (EF), ill defined but important construct psychological processes in conscious control of thought and action; Executive function in typical and atypical development; Problem solving framework for understanding EF as functional construct; Structure function mapping; Use of rules using simple measures of selective attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859603362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325485.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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