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Longitudinal Development of Executive Function from Infancy to Late Childhood.
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- Executive functions as a transdiagnostic endophenotype in developmental psychopathology.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Examining early inhibitory control and emotion regulation as predictors of childhood internalizing and externalizing problems: A longitudinal study.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- Neurobiosensory and Visual Patterns of Attentional and Emotional Functioning in Children Using Machine Learning: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2026Article
- Executive Function and Language Expression in Preschool Children: A Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Study.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- Relationship Between Executive Function and Motor Skills in Early Childhood: A Longitudinal Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Executive function and implications for the Preterm Behavioral Phenotype in very preterm children at age 9-10 years.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2026Article
- Unpredictable maternal signals and developmental profiles of child executive function from infancy to early childhood.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Screen exposure in relation to cool and hot executive functions in preschoolers: parenting processes as mediators and parental growth mindset as moderator.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Investigating neural correlates of attention in relation to the development of executive functions in early childhood.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Inhibitory control development from infancy to early childhood: A longitudinal fNIRS study.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Scaffolding theory of maturation, cognition, motor performance, and motor skill acquisition: a revised and comprehensive framework for understanding motor-cognitive interactions across the lifespan.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- The development of cognitive flexibility and its implications for mental health disorders.Psychological medicine · 2024Article
- The neural correlates of response inhibition across the transition from infancy to toddlerhood: An fNIRS study.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Universality and context-specificity in early executive function development.Infant behavior & development · 2023Article
- One, Two, Three, Eyes on Me: Infant EEG Power Predicts Toddler Executive Functioning Through Infant Attention.Child developmentArticle
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Abstract
Executive function (EF) is difficult to measure in young children because of its heterotypic profile and the rapid development that occurs from infancy through late childhood. To examine EF development, we created age-specific latent factors of EF at ages 5 months, 10 months, 24 months, 36 months, 48 months, and 9 years and used structural equation modeling to create an autoregressive model from infancy through late childhood. Although EF remains difficult to measure due to task constraints, toddler EF as measured by these behavioral tasks is a relatively stable predictor of later EF. Understanding this construct and its developmental trajectory is necessary for creating appropriate experimental designs and interventions to address EF in early childhood.
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