ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Effectiveness of an Executive Function Training in Italian Preschool Educational Services and Far Transfer Effects to Pre-academic Skills.
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- Using Coding to Improve Executive Functioning in Children with Sickle Cell Disease: A Multiple-Baseline Single-Case Study.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- Evaluating in the Real-World Educational Intervention to Improve Interference Control in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Relating mathematical abilities to numerical skills and executive functions in informal and formal schooling.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Exploration of the Educational Utility of National Film Using Deep Learning From the Positive Psychology Perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Preschool Executive Functioning and Child Behavior: Association with Learning Prerequisites?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Effects of Cognitive Training Programs on Executive Function in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Dialogic Reading to Empower Executive Functions in Preschoolers.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Executive Function, Language, and the Toddler's Discovery of Representational Drawing.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
In this study we examine the effectiveness and far transfer effects of a training that was found to be effective in promoting Executive Function (EF) in a sample of 5-year-old children (Traverso et al., 2015). By contrast with Traverso et al. (2015), the intervention was administered by regular teachers to verify its ecological validity. Far transfer was assessed by evaluating the training effects on pre-academic skills. 126 children attending the last year of Italian preschool educational services took part in the study (mainly 5-year-old children). Pre- and post-test assessments were conducted using a large EF and pre-academic skill task battery. The results indicate that the experimental group outperformed the control group in an interference suppression composite score. Moreover, significant far transfer effects to pre-academic skills in literacy domain were found. In addition, we found that the improvement in the pre academic skills (in both literacy and math domains) was mediated by the improvement in the interference suppression score. The results suggest the possibility that this intervention, which may be easily implemented in the context of educational services, can promote EF during the preschool period before entry to primary school.
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