ArticleHuman development2022
Vocabulary and Executive Functioning: A Scoping Review of the Unidirectional and Bidirectional Associations across Early Childhood.
Article in Human development, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The Kia Tīmata Pai Randomized Controlled Trial: ENRICH Early Childhood Teacher Training Improves Toddlers' Oral Language and Self-Regulation.Developmental science · 2026Trial
- An early parenting intervention focused on enriched parent-child interactions improves effortful control in the early years of school.Child developmentTrial
- Executive Function and Language Expression in Preschool Children: A Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Study.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- The Interplay of Vocabulary, Working Memory, and Math Anxiety in Predicting Early Math Performance.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- Child Vocabulary and Developmental Growth in Executive Functions During Toddlerhood.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Learning from the community: iterative co-production of a programme to support the development of attention, regulation and thinking skills in toddlers at elevated likelihood of autism or ADHD.Research involvement and engagement · 2025Article
- Universality and context-specificity in early executive function development.Infant behavior & development · 2023Article
- Early childhood education language environments: considerations for research and practice.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Vocabulary and Early Executive Function during Early Childhood: Revisiting Questions on the Nature of Thought and Language - Commentary on Bruce and Bell.Human development · 2022Article
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Abstract
Early childhood marks a time where word learning is accompanied by rapid growth in the cognitive processes that underlie self-modulated and goal-directed behavior (i.e., executive functions). Although there is empirical evidence to support the association between executive functioning and vocabulary in childhood, inconsistent findings have been reported regarding the extent to which early executive functioning abilities predict later vocabulary outcomes and vice versa. To clarify the nature of the longitudinal relation between these two processes and to examine what, if any, claims can be made about their interdependence, a critical review of the literature was conducted. Also addressed are the conceptual and/or methodological differences that exist across studies conducted on this topic that may be contributing to some of the discrepancies reported in the longitudinal literature. Finally, this review provides practical and empirically informed future directions to serve as a resource for early childhood researchers advancing this area of study.
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