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Maximum Speech Performance and Executive Control in Young Adult Speakers
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Shen, Chen; Janse, Esther – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This study investigated whether maximum speech performance, more specifically, the ability to rapidly alternate between similar syllables during speech production, is associated with executive control abilities in a nonclinical young adult population. Method: Seventy-eight young adult participants completed two speech tasks, both…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Verbal Communication, Executive Function, Young Adults
Event-Related Potentials Reveal Increased Dependency on Linguistic Context Due to Cognitive Aging
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la Roi, Amélie; Sprenger, Simone A.; Hendriks, Petra – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Whereas executive functions are known to be closely tied to successful language processing in children and younger adults, less is known about how age-related decline in these functions affects language processing in elderly adults. Because the abilities to use linguistic context and resolve potential ambiguities such as between an idiom's…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Executive Function, Language Processing, Figurative Language
Explaining Variability: Numerical Representations in 4- to 8-Year-Old Children
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Friso-van den Bos, Ilona; Kolkman, Meijke E.; Kroesbergen, Evelyn H.; Leseman, Paul P. M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
The present study aims to examine relations between number representations and various sources of individual differences within early stages of development of number representations. The mental number line has been found to develop from a logarithmic to a more linear representation. Sources under investigation are counting skills and executive…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Individual Differences, Number Concepts, Executive Function
The Relationship between Media Multitasking and Executive Function in Early Adolescents
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Baumgartner, Susanne E.; Weeda, Wouter D.; van der Heijden, Lisa L.; Huizinga, Mariëtte – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
The increasing prevalence of media multitasking among adolescents is concerning because it may be negatively related to goal-directed behavior. This study investigated the relationship between media multitasking and executive function in 523 early adolescents (aged 11-15; 48% girls). The three central components of executive functions (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Executive Function, Attention Control, Early Adolescents
The Development of Executive Functions and Early Mathematics: A Dynamic Relationship
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Van der Ven, Sanne H. G.; Kroesbergen, Evelyn H.; Boom, Jan; Leseman, Paul P. M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Background: The relationship between executive functions and mathematical skills has been studied extensively, but results are inconclusive, and how this relationship evolves longitudinally is largely unknown. Aim: The aim was to investigate the factor structure of executive functions in inhibition, shifting, and updating; the longitudinal…
Descriptors: Animals, Primary Education, Factor Structure, Inhibition