2023
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-devpsych-120221-040058
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A Rational Account of Cognitive Control Development in Childhood

Abstract: Cognitive control is defined as a set of processes required for the organization of goal-directed thoughts and actions. It is linked to success throughout life including health, wealth, and social capital. How to support the development of cognitive control is therefore an intensively discussed topic. Progress in understanding how this critical life skill can be optimally scaffolded in long-lasting ways has been disappointing. I argue that this effort has been hampered by the predominant perspective that cogni… Show more

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“…The increased boundary-separation parameter may reflect greater control allocation to switch and repeat trials or the increased sensitivity to the cue and its changes within mixed blocks. With children in the high-intensity single-tasking group mainly practicing on the relatively easier condition of single-task blocks, they may have adopted a different strategy for the allocation of control than the high-intensity task-switching group (Shenhav et al 2013; see Steinbeis 2023 for a developmental perspective). This may have hindered them in correctly judging the required control on mixed blocks, in line with our observation that group differences in the increase in boundary separation were especially pronounced for repeat and switch trials as opposed to single trials.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The increased boundary-separation parameter may reflect greater control allocation to switch and repeat trials or the increased sensitivity to the cue and its changes within mixed blocks. With children in the high-intensity single-tasking group mainly practicing on the relatively easier condition of single-task blocks, they may have adopted a different strategy for the allocation of control than the high-intensity task-switching group (Shenhav et al 2013; see Steinbeis 2023 for a developmental perspective). This may have hindered them in correctly judging the required control on mixed blocks, in line with our observation that group differences in the increase in boundary separation were especially pronounced for repeat and switch trials as opposed to single trials.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%