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Executive functions and development: emerging themes
Author(s) -
Hughes Claire
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
infant and child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.87
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1522-7219
pISSN - 1522-7227
DOI - 10.1002/icd.297
Subject(s) - psychology , executive functions , autism , executive dysfunction , function (biology) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , cognition , neuroscience , neuropsychology , evolutionary biology , biology
Abstract Earlier in this special issue I outlined four themes that contribute to the growing research interest in studies of executive function in childhood populations. These were: (1) the importance of executive dysfunction in accounts of developmental disorders such as Autism and ADHD; (2) methodological insights arising from the development of new techniques for assessing children's emerging executive functions; (3) evidence for a fractionated or componential view of executive control; and (4) the relation between individual differences in young children's performance on tests of executive function and ‘theory of mind’. In this paper, these four themes are used to integrate the findings from all the papers in this special issue on executive functions and development. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.