Practitioners frequently use diagnostic criteria to identify children with neurodevelopmental
disorders and to guide intervention decisions. These criteria also provide the organising …

In 2014, two groups of scientists published open letters on the efficacy of brain-training
interventions, or “brain games,” for improving cognition. The first letter, a consensus …

We present a new framework characterizing training-induced changes in WM as the
acquisition of novel cognitive routines akin to learning a new skill. Predictions were tested in …

The author has thought about working memory, not always by that name, since 1969 and
has conducted research on its infant and child development since the same year that the …

Children and adolescents with developmental problems are at increased risk of
experiencing mental health problems. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is …

Our understanding of learning difficulties largely comes from children with specific
diagnoses or individuals selected from community/clinical samples according to strict …

Students' use of working memory (WM) is a key to academic success, as many subject areas
and various tasks school-aged children encounter require the ability to attend to, work with …

A data-driven, transdiagnostic approach was used to identify the cognitive dimensions
linked with learning in a mixed group of 805 children aged 5 to 18 years recognized as …

Cognitive flexibility, the adaptation of representations and responses to new task demands,
improves dramatically in early childhood. It is unclear, however, whether flexibility is a …

Symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity frequently co-occur with language difficulties in
both clinical and community samples. We explore the specificity and strength of these …