The development and malleability of executive control abilities

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Hsu, Nina S ^a   Novick, Jared M ^a   Jaeggi, Susanne M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity analysis; Executive function; fMRI; Interventions; Neuroimaging; Training; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONNECTOME; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84914094426     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00221     Document Type: Review

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