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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"executive skills"”.
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Specific Language Impairment and Executive Function: Parent and Teacher Ratings of Behavior
… difficulty on many performance-based measures of executive function, although their executive performance on ratings of behavior is not well understood. The current investigation used the <em>Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function – Preschool </em>(BRIEF-P; Gioia, Espy, & Isquith, 2003), …
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Do Parent and Teacher Ratings of Behavior Measure What They Are Intended to Measure?
… of intellectual, academic, attentional, and executive skills to account for variance in parent and teacher ratings of behavior across two pediatric age groups in a clinical setting. Additionally, the study compared the relationships between behavioral ratings and cognition in children versus …
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Relations Between Factors of Intelligence and Multiple Components of Executive Functioning in an Undergraduate Sample
Intelligence and executive functioning are multidimensional, related constructs (Decker, Dean, & Hill, 2007; Miyake, Friedman, Emerson, Witzki, & Howerter, 2000). Research suggests that fluid intelligence and certain components of executive functioning are related, with an emphasis in the …
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Underlying Contribution of Executive Functioning to Cognition and Academic Achievement in Individuals with Dystrophinopathy
… domains including language and aspects of executive functioning. A careful examination of the cognitive phenotype and its association to mutations affecting CNS isoforms is necessary to clarify the neuropsychological profile. Executive functions that may contribute to overall IQ performance …
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The role of the working memory central executive system in the development of reading
… body of evidence linking poor working memory skills, particularly central executive functioning, with lower levels of cognitive attainment throughout the school years. Although the role of the phonological loop in reading development has been well established, there is less agreement as to the …
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The Neuropsychological Application of the WAIS-IV over the WAIS-III
… of abilities outside of the spatial reasoning skills purported by the test publishers. Specifically, the subtest was correlated with measures of processing speed, executive skills, and motor speed/reaction time. Thus, clinicians should use caution and examine all possible options when …
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Language-specificity and young preschoolers' social-cognitive development
… body of research, showing the predictive role of executive function on the development of social understanding, in particular false-belief understanding (e.g., Carlson & Moses, 2001; Sabbagh, Xu, Carlson, Moses, & Lee, 2006). However, research on Korean children did not support the view on the …