articleBritish Journal of Developmental PsychologyFeb 24, 2003Closed access

Dimensions of executive functioning: Evidence from children

JLJuhani LehtoPJPetri JuujärviLKLibbe KooistraLPLea Pulkkinen

University of Jyväskylä

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Abstract

This study investigated dimensions of executive functioning in 8‐ to 13‐year‐old children. Three tasks from the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB), two tasks from the NEPSY battery and some additional executive function (EF) tests were administered to 108 children. In line with earlier work, modest correlations among EF measures were obtained ( r < .4). Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses yielded three interrelated factors, which resembled those obtained by Miyake et al . (2000) and which were—with some reservations—labelled Working Memory (WM), Inhibition and Shifting. Age correlated with performance on most individual EF measures as well as Shifting and WM. The…

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  • Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery
  • Psychology
  • Executive functions
  • Working memory
  • Developmental psychology
  • Confirmatory factor analysis
  • Neuropsychological test
  • Neuropsychology
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