Executive Functions in Children: A Special Issue of developmental Neuropsychology - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0805899197 ISBN 13: 9780805899191

Casa editrice: Psychology Press, 1996

Riassunto

The six articles in this special issue address different types of cognitive skills and behavioral functioning commonly described as "executive" functions. These functions actually represent several aspects of cognition, including the allocation of cognitive resources, planning, problem solving, response inhibition, self-monitoring and regulation, and the maintenance of mental sets. As the authors conclusively demonstrate, it is wrong to ascribe cognitive functions subserved under "executive" functions to the frontal lobes, particularly at the level of specific tasks. The overlap with constructs from models of attention and memory reflects the fact that mental operations are complex, such that the working of the executive function component may be masked by the material-specific nature of the task, age of the child, or other task demands.

What may be most important is the implicit approach to investigation characteristic of all the articles. In the previous decade, many investigators described problems with neuropsychological approaches to children that reflected excessive reliance on investigations of adults and the need to develop hypotheses and databases on disorders specific to children. The contributors to this issue report specific applications to samples that clearly represent childhood disorders. The applications are driven by hypothetical models of cognition derived from research on the cognitive development of children. The goal is to use cognitive tasks to understand the nature of brain function in children and brain dysfunction in CNS disorders specific to children. The reports represent the continued emergence of a developmental neuropsychology of children and the establishment of hypotheses and databases on CNS disorders specific to children.

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Contents: J.M. Fletcher, Executive Functions in Children: Introduction to the Special Series. M.B. Denckla, Research on Executive Function in a Neurodevelopmental Context: Application of Clinical Measures. H.S. Levin, J.M. Fletcher, J.A. Kufera, H. Harward, M.A. Lilly, D. Mendelsohn, D. Bruce, H.M. Eisenberg, Dimensions of Cognition Measured by the Tower of London and Other Cognitive Tasks in Head-Injured Children and Adolescents. H.G. Taylor, C. Schatschneider, S. Petrill, C.T. Barry, C. Owens, Executive Dysfunction in Children With Early Brain Disease: Outcomes Post Haemophilus Influenzae Meningitis. J.M. Fletcher, B.L. Brookshire, S.H. Landry, T.P. Bohan, K.C. Davidson, D.J. Francis, H.S. Levin, M.E. Brandt, L.A. Kramer, R.D. Morris, Attentional Skills and Executive Functions in Children With Early Hydrocephalus. M. Dennis, M.A. Barnes, R.E. Donnelly, M. Wilkinson, R.P. Humphreys, Appraising and Managing Knowledge: Metacognitive Skills After Childhood Head Injury. R.J. Roberts, Jr., B.F. Pennington, An Interactive Framework for Examining Prefrontal Cognitive Processes.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Psychology Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0805899197
• ISBN 13: 9780805899191
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Redattore: Fletcher Jack M.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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