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Training Executive Functions to Improve Academic Achievement: Tackling Avenues to Far Transfer
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The aim of training executive functions is usually to improve the ability to attain real-life goals such as academic achievement, that is, far transfer.
Catherine Gunzenhauser +1 more
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Executive Functioning in Schizophrenia [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2013 The executive function (EF) is a set of abilities, which allows us to invoke voluntary control of our behavioral responses. These functions enable human beings to develop and carry out plans, make up analogies, obey social rules, solve problems, adapt to unexpected circumstances, do many tasks simultaneously, and locate episodes in time and place.
Gricel eOrellana +5 more
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Annual Review of Psychology, 2013 Executive functions (EFs) make possible mentally playing with ideas; taking the time to think before acting; meeting novel, unanticipated challenges; resisting temptations; and staying focused. Core EFs are inhibition [response inhibition (self-control—resisting temptations and resisting acting impulsively) and interference control (selective ...
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The Relationship between Executive Functions and Metacognition in College Students
Journal of Intelligence, 2023 This study investigated the relationship between executive functions and metacognition. Both constructs have been well-studied, but little research has focused on their connections.
Mengjiao Wu, Christopher A. Was
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Middle East Current Psychiatry, 2022 Background Epilepsy is a prevalent disease worldwide. Executive functions and social cognition are essential in daily living functioning, academic performance, and social adjustment.
Saber Hadad +4 more
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Executive functions in the context of complex learning: Malleable moderators?
Frontline Learning Research, 2017 Executive functions are crucial for complex learning in addition to prior knowledge. In this article, we argue that executive functions can moderate the effectiveness of instructional approaches that vary with respect to the demand on these functions. In
Matthias Schwaighofer +2 more
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Comparison of objective and subjective executive functions of chronic kidney dialysis patients and normal people [PDF]
مجله علوم روانشناختی, 2023 Background: Chronic kidney disease is one of the widespread public health problems. This disease is associated with extensive cognitive deficits, among which visual attention, psychomotor speed and executive function can be mentioned.
Malek Bastami katuli +4 more
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Executive Functions in Developmental Dyslexia
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 The present study was aimed at investigating different aspects of Executive Functions (EF) in children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD).A neuropsychological battery tapping verbal fluency, spoonerism, attention, verbal shifting, short-term and working ...
Pamela eVarvara +5 more
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Educating executive function [PDF]
WIREs Cognitive Science, 2016 Executive functions are thinking skills that assist with reasoning, planning, problem solving, and managing one's life. The brain areas that underlie these skills are interconnected with and influenced by activity in many different brain areas, some of which are associated with emotion and stress.
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Executive functions in anorexia nervosa
Nutrición Hospitalaria, 2014 Introduction: The pathophysiologic mechanisms that account for the development and persistence of anorexia nervosa (AN) remain unclear. With respect to the neuropsychological functioning, the executive functions have been reported to be altered ...
Ignacio Jauregui-Lobera
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