Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin.
University of Colorado Boulder · Institute for Behavioral Medicine
Abstract
Recent psychological and neuropsychological research suggests that executive functions--the cognitive control processes that regulate thought and action--are multifaceted and that different types of executive functions are correlated but separable. The present multivariate twin study of 3 executive functions (inhibiting dominant responses, updating working memory representations, and shifting between task sets), measured as latent variables, examined why people vary in these executive control abilities and why these abilities are correlated but separable from a behavioral genetic perspective. Results indicated that executive functions are correlated because they are influenced by a highly heritable (99%)…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 51.75
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 114
Authors
6- NPNaomi P. FriedmanCorresponding
University of Colorado Boulder, Institute for Behavioral Medicine
- AMAkira Miyake
University of Colorado Boulder
- SESusan E. Young
University of Colorado Boulder, Institute for Behavioral Medicine
- JCJohn C. DeFries
University of Colorado Boulder, Institute for Behavioral Medicine
- RPRobin P. Corley
University of Colorado Boulder, Institute for Behavioral Medicine
Topics & keywords
- Executive functions
- Psychology
- Cognition
- Perspective (graphical)
- Cognitive psychology
- Neuropsychology
- Working memory
- Perception