Abstract: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 … Show more
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