Sentences with phrase «on executive function»

Moderate vagal withdrawal in 3.5 year old children is associated with optimal performance on executive function tasks

Full - Versus Part - Day Kindergarten for Children With Disabilities: Effects on Executive Function Skills.

The study objective was to examine the effects of two conceptually related constructs, self - compassion and dispositional mindfulness, on executive function (EF) proficiency among early adolescents.

Tools of the Mind — Play did not demonstrate expected impacts on executive function or self - regulation; it produced only positive impacts on emotion knowledge.

This week's pain happens to be distraction and writer's block, so as I read Bari Walsh's lead story on executive function — described in this video as «an air traffic control system in the brain» — I had to wonder whether my own current disconnections were somehow related.

These habits draw heavily on executive function (EF) skills, cognitive processes that include problem - solving, goal setting, and flexible thinking.

«We looked the relationship between prospective memory and two aspects of executive functioning — rule monitoring (the ability to avoid errors on executive function tests), and total achievement on tests of executive function.»

Following both the yoga and meditation activities, participants performed significantly better on executive function tasks compared to the reading task.

-LCB- How new research on executive function in kids made me feel better about being a soccer mom dropout -RCB- My oldest son is 8 and is one of t...

A lower score on executive functioning scale was associated with frequent binge drinking and drug use, cocaine in particular.

A significant improvement was noted on the executive functioning subtest with marginally significant improvement in reaction time.

Further research published in the journal Neuropsychology studied the effects of being bilingual on the executive functioning of two groups of participants: 75 people with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and 74 with a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment, a condition that sometimes progresses into Alzheimer's disease.

Parenting calls heavily on our executive functions, a set of cognitive skills and processes that are impaired in ADHD brains.

The infant behavioral assessment and intervention program in very low birth weight infants: Outcome on executive functioning, behaviour and cognition at preschool age

Research shows sizeable effects of computerized training on executive functions if the difficulty level, or «working memory load,» is adaptively increased, on nonverbal intelligence and on parent reports of self - regulation behaviour in children with ADHD, but evidence for transfer to academic achievement and classroom behaviour is not fully consistent.18

Secondary aims include assessing the comparative effects of the intervention and control training programme on executive functioning ability, day - to - day functioning and alcohol consumption.

Training games for the intervention group will specifically focus on executive functioning, and will be based on classic paradigms used in cognitive neuroscience and executive functioning batteries.

[3] Flook, L. «Effects of Mindful Awareness Practices on Executive Functions in Elementary School Children» Journal of Applied School Psychology (2010) 26: 1, 70 -95

Participants will be randomly allocated to one of two cognitive training conditions: (1) the intervention group (cognitive training specifically focused on executive functioning) or (2) the control group (cognitive training focusing on other cognitive abilities).

In order to identify those at risk for developing a mental illness, this study will target personality risk factors, including hopelessness, anxiety sensitivity, impulsivity and sensation seeking, which have been shown to reliably predict substance misuse, anxiety, emotional and behavioural disorders in young people.23 24 It is hypothesised that the intervention cognitive training programme (focusing on executive functioning) will be more effective than the active control cognitive training programme (focusing on cognitive abilities other than executive functioning) in reducing psychopathology.

Results from analyses of covariance indicated that there were no significant differences (p <.01) between aggression groups on any executive functioning subdomains.

Influence of Catechol - O - methyltransferase on Executive Functioning Longitudinally After Early Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury.

Second, adverse early experiences may compromise later emerging developmental processes that can not be ascertained at very young ages, such as the profound effects of institutional rearing on executive functioning in middle childhood (25).

Program of neuropsychological stimulation of cognition in students: Emphasis on executive functions - development and evidence of content validity.

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But no executive function will ever have more influence on CEOs» legacy than marketing.

I still function as the executive director of Affordable Homes of South Texas, Inc. (AHSTI), the non-profit that created Esperanza on Fifth, LLC which owns the Blimpie Weslaco franchise.

Prior to HM3, he was an engineer, executive, and serial investor, starting with 21 years in the R&D function of Union Carbide, where he worked on converting coal into gasoline.

One study found that after participants completed ten minutes of short, periodic sprints, «performance on the Stroop Test — a long - established measure of mental control, or what psychologists call «executive function» — seemed to be enhanced immediately... and 45 minutes afterwards.»

SAN JOSE, Calif. — At Facebook's annual developer conference, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to the social networking platform, including a function that allows users to delete information Facebook has gathered on them — and a dating tool.

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Chief executive John O'Connell said: «Not only have savers had very little to celebrate over the last eight years because of rock bottom interest rates, but many will rightly be angry that staff are then spending huge sums of money on lavish parties for themselves... It would be right to consider these sensitivities when planning any future function.»

Internal control at Municipality Finance comprises financial administration that handles financial reporting, a risk management function which reports on the company's risk position and any changes to it and is independent of the business of the company, and internal audit performed by business units which produce reports that are processed by supervisors, the President and CEO assisted by the Executive Management Team, as well as the company's Board of Directors.

Public Power Corporation chief executive Manolis Panagiotakis referred on Thursday to the prospect of a considerable reduction in the utility's operating costs as well as extensive changes in its organization and function after the completion of its new business plan currently being drafted by consultant McKinsey & Company.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

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On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

«Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning,» a video from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

The Educare model puts as much emphasis on the development of children's noncognitive capacities as it does on their literacy and numeracy abilities, which means that kids in Educare centers are surrounded by lots of the interactive nurturance that fortifies their prefrontal cortex and leads to healthy executive - function development.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

The capacities that develop in the earliest years may be harder to measure on tests of kindergarten readiness than abilities like number and letter recognition, but they are precisely the skills, closely related to executive functions, that researchers have recently determined to be so valuable in kindergarten and beyond: the ability to focus on a single activity for an extended period, the ability to understand and follow directions, the ability to cope with disappointment and frustration, the ability to interact capably with other students.

They fall behind on measures of cognition and language development, and they have executive - function problems, too: They struggle with attention regulation; they are perceived by their teachers and parents as inattentive and hyperactive; they have trouble focusing in school.

More recently, researchers using variations on Anda and Felitti's ACE scale have found that growing up in a chronically stressful home, as indicated by an elevated ACE score, has a direct negative effect on the development of children's executive functions and, by extension, on their ability to learn effectively in school.

Decades of research1 combined with new studies have confirmed the critical role of play in developing self - control, executive function skills, socio - emotional learning, problem solving, coordination, language processing... I could go on.

Research With the premise that science isn't perfect, but it's the best guide we've got, Zero to Five draws on scientific research and studies from experts such as Dimitri Christakis (screen time), Diana Baumrind (parenting styles), Adele Diamond (neuroscience and executive function), Carol Dweck (growth mindset), Alison Gopnik (child psychology), John Gottman (marriage and conflict resolution), Megan McClelland (executive function), Patricia Kuhl (language acquisition and brain development), Ellyn Satter (feeding children), Dan Siegel (emotions), Paul Torrance (creative thinking), Grover Whitehurst (literacy and reading comprehension), and more.

Executive functions also serve as the developmental building blocks — the neurological infrastructure — underpinning the noncognitive capacities that educators are now so focused on.

Tough focuses on teaching noncognitive skills, the kind of executive functioning required to be a resilient and autonomous person.

In order for kids to have perseverance and tenacity in school later on, they need to start with self - regulatory abilities — the ability to calm themselves down, to focus on something for long periods of time, executive functions, as researchers sometimes call them.

Teachers who insist on assigning homework to young children often cite executive function benefits (time management, organization, that kind of thing) as their rationale.

«Having executive function in the brain is like having an air traffic control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways,» is how the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University describes it.

Washington also developed an online training program as part of its professional development requirements for early childhood teachers that includes an explanation of the brain's executive function and describes the effects of trauma on child development.