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SUBMITTER: Perone S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5736467 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Perone Sammy S Plebanek Daniel J DJ Lorenz Megan G MG Spencer John P JP Samuelson Larissa K LK
Child development 20170619 1
Executive function (EF) plays a foundational role in development. A brain-based model of EF development is probed for the experiences that strengthen EF in the dimensional change card sort task in which children sort cards by one rule and then are asked to switch to another. Three-year-olds perseverate on the first rule, failing the task, whereas 4-year-olds pass. Three predictions of the model are tested to help 3-year-olds (N = 54) pass. Experiment 1 shows that experience with shapes and the l ...[more]