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Direct linkXiaoliang Zhu; Yixin Tang; Jiaqi Lu; Minyuan Song; Chunliang Yang; Xin Zhao – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
Mathematical ability is a crucial component of human cognitive function, which is defined as the ability to acquire, process, and store mathematical information. While many studies have documented a close relationship between elementary school children's inhibitory control and their mathematical ability, existing empirical evidence remains…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Elementary School Students, Inhibition, Self Control
Ann Folker; Christina Bertrand; Yelim Hong; Laurence Steinberg; Natasha Duell; Lei Chang; Laura Di Giunta; Kenneth A. Dodge; Sevtap Gurdal; Daranee Junla; Jennifer E. Lansford; Paul Oburu; Concetta Pastorelli; Ann T. Skinner; Emma Sorbring; Marc H. Bornstein; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong; Liane Peña Alampay; Suha M. Al-Hassan; Dario Bacchini; Kirby Deater-Deckard – Developmental Science, 2025
Executive functioning (EF) is an important developing self-regulatory process that has implications for academic, social, and emotional outcomes. Most work in EF has focused on childhood, and less has examined the development of EF throughout adolescence and into emerging adulthood. The present study assessed longitudinal trajectories of EF from…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Adolescents, Young Adults, Age Differences
Download full textSebnem Özge Özsoy; Hatice Dagli; H. Elif Daglioglu – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
This study aims to examine preschool children's executive function skills and motivation about various variables and determine the relationship between these two domains. A correlational survey method was employed in the study, and the study group consisted of 224 children aged 48-72 months attending preschool education institutions in Türkiye.…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Preschool Children, Student Motivation, Predictor Variables
Michelle Kiep; Annelies Spek; Eva Ceulemans; Ilse Noens – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Purpose: One of the core features that can be experienced by adults on the autism spectrum is hyper- and hyporeactivity to sensory stimuli. Research suggests that executive functioning (EF) impairments are related to sensory issues. In this study the relationship between sensory processing issues and EF was investigated. We expected sensory…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Executive Function, Sensory Experience
Nicolas Chevalier; Aurélien Frick – Developmental Science, 2025
Cognitive control shows two main developmental trends: greater self-directedness (i.e., children need less external scaffolding) and greater proactiveness (i.e., children increasingly anticipate and prepare for upcoming cognitive demands). The present study examined potential links between these major developmental transitions. Specifically, it…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Children, Adults, Cognitive Processes
Freda Jia Xin Jong; Alvin Lai Oon Ng; Cheng Kar Phang; Safa Omran; Siew Li Teoh – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2025
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are secular trainings shown to enhance cognitive function, but their effectiveness among tertiary students has not been critically evaluated. This review synthesized evidence from randomized controlled trials on the impact of MBIs on cognitive improvement in tertiary students. Databases including Medline and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Intervention, College Students, Cognitive Ability
Yuchen Pan; Yongtao Xiao – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025
The study aimed to explore spoken language and executive function (EF) characteristics in 3-5-year-old prelingually deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children, and evaluate the impact of demographic variables and EF on spoken language skills. 48 DHH children and 48 typically developing children who use auditory-oral communication were recruited. All…
Descriptors: Young Children, Deafness, Hard of Hearing, Executive Function
Xinli Zhang; Yuchen Chen; Lailin Hu; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Yun-Fang Tu – International Journal of STEM Education, 2025
Background: In the digital age, fostering young children's computational thinking (CT) and executive functions (EFs) through programming has emerged as a significant research issue. While unplugged programming activities are commonly adopted in preschools, robot programming activities have recently gained attention for the potential to enhance…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computation, Executive Function, Programming
Gaia Scerif; Jelena Sucevic; Hannah Andrews; Emma Blakey; Sylvia U. Gattas; Amy Godfrey; Zachary Hawes; Steven J. Howard; Liberty Kent; Rebecca Merkley; Rosemary O'Connor; Fionnuala O'Reilly; Victoria Simms – npj Science of Learning, 2025
Executive functions (EF) are crucial to regulating learning and are predictors of emerging mathematics. However, interventions that leverage EF to improve mathematics remain poorly understood. 193 four-year-olds (mean age = 3 years; 11 months pre-intervention; 111 female, 69% White) were assessed 5 months apart, with 103 children randomised to an…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Executive Function, Mathematics Skills, Preschool Children
Ángel Javier Tabullo; Gastón Ignacio Saux; María Rufina Pearson – Journal of Research in Reading, 2025
Background: Internet documents are characterised by their non-linear hyperlink structure, which allows for more flexible reading, at the cost of higher cognitive loads. Linear text reading comprehension skills contribute to hypertext comprehension (either directly or through its impact on navigation behaviours) but cannot fully account for its…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Executive Function, Reading Comprehension, Hypermedia
Frédéric Thériault-Couture; Célia Matte-Gagné; Annie Bernier – Developmental Science, 2025
Executive functions (EFs) emerge in the first years of life and are essential for many areas of child development. However, intraindividual developmental trajectories of EF during toddlerhood and their associations with ongoing development of language skills remain poorly understood. The present three-wave study examined these trajectories and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Toddlers, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Natalie H. Stagnone; John C. Thorne; Julia T. Mattson; Sara T. Kover – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
Executive function is an area of challenge for both children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Parent ratings of everyday executive function relate to a range of outcomes, including social functioning in ASD. Comparisons between FASD and ASD have revealed both overlapping and distinct…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Kelsey S. Dickson; Megan Galligan; Tana Holt; Lauren Kenworthy; Laura Anthony; Scott Roesch; Lauren Brookman-Frazee – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
The critical role of executive functioning in autism as well as the co-occurring mental health challenges common among autistic youth support to the immense value of interventions targeting executive functioning for enhancing mental health services for autistic children. The goal of the present study was to conduct a randomized feasibility trial…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Intervention, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Mental Health
Laure Lu Chen; Jean Anne Heng; Chengyi Xu; Michelle R. Ellefson; Miryam Edwards; Hana D'Souza; Elian Fink; Mikeda Jess; Louise Gray; Caoimhe Dempsey; Mishika Mehrotra; Siu Ching Wong; Catherine Wu; Brittany Huang; Jiayin Zheng; Zhen Wu; Rory T. Devine; Claire Hughes – Child Development, 2025
Cross-site comparisons indicate that East Asian children typically excel on tests of executive function (EF), but interpreting this contrast is made difficult by both the heavy reliance on testing in school settings and by the scarcity of studies that assess across-site measurement invariance. Addressing these gaps, our study included remote…
Descriptors: Children, Executive Function, Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development
Kaëlig Raspail; Valérie Pennequin – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between the three main executive functions (i.e., inhibition, working memory, and flexibility) and three steps of social information processing model (SIP; Crick & Dodge, 1994). Participants were 42 young people (13 years old 5 months, SD = 28 months) with mild level of intellectual…
Descriptors: Mild Intellectual Disability, Executive Function, Social Cognition, Information Processing
