Developmental Changes in Executive Functioning

Although early studies of executive functioning in children supported Miyake et al.'s (2000) three-factor model, more recent findings supported a variety of undifferentiated or two-factor structures. Using a cohort-sequential design, this study examined whether there were age-related difference...

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Published in:Child development Vol. 84; no. 6; pp. 1933 - 1953
Main Authors: Lee, Kerry, Bull, Rebecca, Ho, Ringo M. H.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2013
Wiley for the Society for Research in Child Development
Wiley-Blackwell
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Development
Adolescent Development - physiology
Adolescents
Age
Age difference
Age Differences
Age groups
Aging - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Development
Child Development - physiology
Child psychology
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive Processes
Cohort Studies
Cohorts
Confirmatory factor analysis
Developmental psychology
Discriminant analysis
EMPIRICAL ARTICLES
Executive Function
Executive Function - physiology
Factor Analysis
Factor Structure
Factor structures
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Inhibition
Inhibition (Psychology)
Longitudinal studies
Male
Mathematical functions
Memory
Memory interference
Memory, Short-Term - physiology
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychomotor Performance - physiology
Reaction Time
Short Term Memory
Statistical variance
Trucks
Updating
Variance
Working memory
Human
Executive function
Memory
Cognition
School age
Follow up study
Adolescent
Confirmatory factor analysis
Cognitive development
Working memory
Performance
Child
Age
ISSN:0009-3920, 1467-8624, 1467-8624
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Summary:Although early studies of executive functioning in children supported Miyake et al.'s (2000) three-factor model, more recent findings supported a variety of undifferentiated or two-factor structures. Using a cohort-sequential design, this study examined whether there were age-related differences in the structure of executive functioning among 6- to 15-year-olds (N = 688). Children were tested annually on tasks designed to measure updating and working memory, inhibition, and switch efficiency. There was substantial task-based variation in developmental patterns on the various tasks. Confirmatory factor analyses and tests for longitudinal factorial invariance showed that data from the 5- to 13-year-olds conformed to a two-factor structure. For the 15-year-olds, a well-separated three-factor structure was found.
Bibliography:Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice
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Table S1. Descriptive Statistics, Reliabilities, Correlations, and Residuals for Correlations. Table S2. Parameter Estimates. Table S3. Variances Explained by Age.
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ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/cdev.12096