The present study examined the developmental trajectories of motor planning and executive functioning in children. To this end, we tested 217 participants with three motor tasks, measuring anticipatory planning abilities (i.e., the bar-transport-task, the sword-rotation-task and the grasp-height-task), and three cognitive tasks, measuring executive functions (i.e., the Tower-of-Hanoi-task, the ...

Objectives: Behavior rating scales have been developed to increase ecological validity in the measurement of executive functions. As the teachers have a lot of contact with the students in the school environment, behavioral rating scale teacher’s form can provide useful information. The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the behavioral rating inventor...

Purpose: Present research was conducted with aim of the structural relationships of executive functions with academic engagement in female students: Mediated role of perception of educational environment. Methodology: This study was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The statistical research population was ninth grade female students of Sari County in the 2018-19 academic years. The res...

Thumbnail The term "executive function" includes the ability to filter interference, engage in goaldirected behaviors, anticipate the consequences of one's actions, and to exhibit the adaptive concept of mental flexibility. The analysis of executive functions represents one of the most important research areas in contemporary neurosciences. It is partially—but not totally— related to frontal lo...

(1976). Genetic dissection of the photoreceptor system in the compound eye of Drosophila melanogaster. (1978). A Drosophila mutant with a temperature-sensitive block in nerve conduction. synonymous with those behaviours and abilities. At an abstract level of processing, least tied to routine behaviour, are flexible representations of goals and intentions. Such 'higher-level' representations are...

I HOPE that the first point I want to make about executive stress has also been made, equally emphatically. by my colleagues who are also contributing to this issue. It is, of course, that "executive stress" is no different from maternal stress, geriatric stress, boilermakers' stress, and so on. Because we live in an age of classification we are happy when we can tie a label on to something and...

b a c k ground: several studies have indicated that executive dysfunction is the main neuropsychological feature of parkinson’s disease (pd). the frontal assessment battery (fab) is a short tool for the assessment of executive functions. p u r p o s e : the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between persian version of fab scores and age, education, mini-mental state examination...