A Summary of the Developmental Trajectory of Executive Functions from Birth to Adulthood

Korzeniowski, Celina Graciela; Ison, Mirta Susana; Anglat, Hilda Emilia Difabio de

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“…In addition, the capacity for skilled self-control is strongly related to the maturation of executive functions. 26 In fact, executive function evolves over time individually, and the maturation of executive function and associated prefrontal capabilities is not complete until the third decade of life. 26 As a result, adolescents may not have sufficient self-control skills to master internal cognitiveemotional-impulsive drives and handle external stimulus, which is supported by Rosenbaum's self-control theory, 13 indicating that self-control skills can be learned and modeled by experience and practiced throughout life.…”

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“…26 In fact, executive function evolves over time individually, and the maturation of executive function and associated prefrontal capabilities is not complete until the third decade of life. 26 As a result, adolescents may not have sufficient self-control skills to master internal cognitiveemotional-impulsive drives and handle external stimulus, which is supported by Rosenbaum's self-control theory, 13 indicating that self-control skills can be learned and modeled by experience and practiced throughout life. Hence, considering adolescents' immature brain development, the perspective of self-control theory, and cross-sectional design in most related studies, a longitudinal design is warranted to further explore the impact of perceived stress on overeating patterns and the role played by self-control skills in these relationships.…”

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Understanding the Associations Among Perceived Stress, Self-Control Skills, and Overeating in Asian Adolescents

Chuang

Wang

2021

J Dev Behav Pediatr

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Objective: Built on Rosenbaum's self-control theory, this study aimed to examine the mediating role of self-control skills in the relationship between perceived stress and overeating patterns among adolescents from an Asia-Pacific region. Methods: A cross-sectional study was used with a school-based, nonclinical sample of 195 adolescents. Participants completed self-report measures assessing study variables and demographic information such as body mass index (BMI) status for adolescents and their parents. Mediation analyses were conducted with Hayes' PROCESS macro modeling tool to assess self-control skills as the mediator of the relationships between perceived stress and each overeating pattern based on the regression-based bootstrapping method, adjusting for potential covariates. Results: The prevalence of overweight and obesity was approximately 18% in the current sample of adolescents. While controlling for age, sex, and standardized BMI, self-control skills mediated the effects of stress on emotional and external eating, but not on restrained eating; in addition, self-control skills partially mediated the relationship between perceived stress and an overall overeating tendency. Conclusion: Consistent with Rosenbaum's selfcontrol theory, self-control skills were found to mediate the relationship between perceived stress and emotional and external eating. This study highlights the importance of prevention treatments developed to impart adolescents with self-control skills, decrease their perceived stress, and consequently, reduce their overeating patterns during this intense developmental period.

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Understanding the Associations Among Perceived Stress, Self-Control Skills, and Overeating in Asian Adolescents

Chuang

Wang

2021

J Dev Behav Pediatr

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“…The specific objective was the development of a comprehensive neuropsychological stimulation program in which the following cognitive and emotional functions were intervened: attention, language, executive functions, social cognition, and emotional competence. This comprehensive intervention responds to the needs detected in recent previous experiences, and we hypothesise that the strengthening of cognitive abilities and emotional competence will improve their overall health and well-being, as of previous studies have shown [16][17][18].…”

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“…Neuropsychological stimulation programs focused on both cognitive and emotional functions have a long tradition in the clinical field, being the treatment of first choice in various neurodevelopmental disorders [15]. Additionally, there are currently some previous experiences on the efficacy of neuropsychological interventions focused on specific cognitive domains in a non-clinical child population belonging to socioeconomically vulnerable contexts [16][17][18]. These investigations seem to support the use of different agents and materials in cognitive intervention, with early intervention and a high number of sessions appearing to be more effective.…”

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Neuropsychological stimulation for children living in low socioeconomic level suburbs from Guatemala City: A study protocol.

Rodríguez-Prieto,

Simpson,

Gómez-Baya

et al. 2023

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Background: Guatemala remains one of the poorest countries in central America and suffers from high rates of social inequality and violence. Among other disadvantages, this unfavourable socioeconomic context poses a risk to children’s emotional and cognitive development. In addition to the negative impact that two years without attending school has had on Guatemalan children, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country’s economic stability has worsened the socioeconomic divide that these children face. This work presents a protocol for implementing a cognitive and emotional stimulation program with the goal of increasing the academic performance of these children and consequently improve their quality of life. Methods: The protocol proposes the implementation of a randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of a 24-session-long stimulation program. It contains activities targeting the cognitive functions of attention, language, executive functions, and social cognition, using the digital neurorehabilitation platform NeuronUP. The participants (n = 480) will be randomly assigned to either the Experimental or Control group. Pre- and post-intervention assessments will be carried out, together with a follow-up in the next academic year, in which both groups will change roles. Discussion: Mid- and long-term outcomes are still unknown, but effective interventions based on this protocol are expected to facilitate the following benefits for participants: (1) improved cognitive and emotional development; (2) improved academic performance; (3) improved well-being. We expect to create a validated neuropsychological stimulation program that could be applied in similar socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts around the world to help these children improve their life chances. Trial registration: This project has been registered in the Open Science Foundation data base on the 10th of February 2022 (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/JVZ6W).

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“…The MIMIC analysis showed invariance across age, except for one small positive direct effect on the updating 2-Back task. This may be explained by the fact that updating tasks in the EF unity/diversity literature are not usually controlled for speed of processing which has been shown to increase throughout development, especially during adolescence (see Korzeniowski et al, 2021). This improvement may be systematically promoting an increase in performance in the 2-Back task with age, which is not being captured by the EF updating latent trait.…”

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Cross-country (Brazil and Iran) invariance of fractionation of executive functions in early adolescence

Segura¹,

Cogo-Moreira²,

Nouri³

et al. 2022

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Cultural background can influence cognition, including executive functions (EFs), abilities that encompass skills responsible for self-regulation of thoughts and behaviour. The seminal unity and diversity model of EFs proposes the existence, in adulthood, of three correlated but separable EF latent (shared variance in more than one task/indicator) domains: inhibition, updating and shifting. However, evidence of the cross-cultural generality of the development of this framework is lacking, especially regarding adolescence, an age during which these domains become more clearly separable. We tested whether EF unity/diversity could be observed in early adolescents (9 – 15-year-olds) from Brazil and Iran (total sample: 739; 407 Iranians; 358 girls). Participants carried out two open-access tasks that are representative of each EF domain and that were adapted to each cultural context. Seven latent model configurations were tested. The three-correlated latent factor structure had adequate fit and multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis invariance testing showed invariance for country at the level of the latent factor structure (configural invariance), factor loadings (metric invariance), and partial invariance at the intercept (scalar) level. Iranians had higher scores in all domains. Multiple indicators multiple causes invariance testing showed model invariance across age (except for one task) and parental education and that performance in all domains improved with age and only minimally with parental schooling. We conclude that EF fractionation into three domains is already present in the first half of adolescence in two samples from underrepresented populations in the literature, suggesting a potential generality of EF latent unity/diversity development at this age.

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A Summary of the Developmental Trajectory of Executive Functions from Birth to Adulthood

Cited by 19 publications

References 69 publications

Understanding the Associations Among Perceived Stress, Self-Control Skills, and Overeating in Asian Adolescents

Understanding the Associations Among Perceived Stress, Self-Control Skills, and Overeating in Asian Adolescents

Neuropsychological stimulation for children living in low socioeconomic level suburbs from Guatemala City: A study protocol.

Cross-country (Brazil and Iran) invariance of fractionation of executive functions in early adolescence

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