Executive functions are a suite of related cognitive functions that allow one to hold in mind goal relevant information and exclude from mind goal irrelevant information. Based on clinical and neuroimaging studies cognitive neuroscientists believe that these functions are central to the performance of goal directed behavior. In this talk I will describe my research investigating the assessment of these abilities in the laboratory and associations with individual difference variables during development and preliminary evidence that these abilities may be shaped by the developmental environment.
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Sociology-Psychology 329
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