Executive functions

A Diamond - Annual review of psychology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Executive functions (EFs) make possible mentally playing with ideas; taking the time to think
before acting; meeting novel, unanticipated challenges; resisting temptations; and staying …

Puberty and the human brain: Insights into adolescent development

N Vijayakumar, ZO de Macks, EA Shirtcliff… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Alongside the exponential flourish of research on age-related trajectories of human brain
development during childhood and adolescence in the past two decades, there has been an …

[BOOK][B] Cognitive gadgets: The cultural evolution of thinking

C Heyes - 2018 - books.google.com
“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

Effects of the FITKids randomized controlled trial on executive control and brain function

CH Hillman, MB Pontifex, DM Castelli, NA Khan… - …, 2014 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of a physical activity (PA) intervention on brain and
behavioral indices of executive control in preadolescent children. METHODS: Two hundred …

Adolescent undernutrition: global burden, physiology, and nutritional risks

P Christian, ER Smith - Annals of nutrition and metabolism, 2018 - karger.com
Abstract Background: Adolescents, comprised of 10–19 year olds, form the largest
generation of young people in our history. There are an estimated 1.8 billion adolescents in …

Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function

AS Keller, VJ Sydnor, A Pines, DA Fair… - Trends in cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
In this perspective, we describe how developmental improvements in youth executive
function (EF) are supported by hierarchically organized maturational changes in functional …

The development of emotion regulation: an fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal in children, adolescents and young adults

K McRae, JJ Gross, J Weber… - Social cognitive and …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The ability to use cognitive reappraisal to regulate emotions is an adaptive skill in adulthood,
but little is known about its development. Because reappraisal is thought to be supported by …

Why improving and assessing executive functions early in life is critical.

A Diamond - 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
To be successful in school or in one's career takes creativity, flexibility, self-control, and
discipline. Central to all those are executive functions (EFs), including mentally playing with …

An integrative model of the maturation of cognitive control

B Luna, S Marek, B Larsen… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Brains systems undergo unique and specific dynamic changes at the cellular, circuit, and
systems level that underlie the transition to adult-level cognitive control. We integrate …

[HTML][HTML] Social re-orientation and brain development: An expanded and updated view

EE Nelson, JM Jarcho, AE Guyer - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
Social development has been the focus of a great deal of neuroscience based research over
the past decade. In this review, we focus on providing a framework for understanding how …