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Brydges, Christopher R.; Reid, Corinne L.; Fox, Allison M.; Anderson, Mike – Intelligence, 2012
Executive functions (EF) and intelligence are of critical importance to success in many everyday tasks. Working memory, or updating, which is one latent variable identified in confirmatory factor analytic models of executive functions, predicts intelligence (both fluid and crystallised) in adults, but inhibition and shifting do not (Friedman et…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Learning Disabilities, Inhibition, Task Analysis
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van der Sluis, Sophie; de Jong, Peter F.; van der Leij, Aryan – Intelligence, 2007
The aims of this study were to investigate whether the executive functions, inhibition, shifting, and updating, are distinguishable as latent variables (common factors) in children aged 9 to 12, and to examine the relations between these executive functions and reading, arithmetic, and (non)verbal reasoning. Confirmatory factor analysis was used…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Inhibition, Factor Analysis, Learning Disabilities