Executive function in preschool-age children : integrating measurement, neurodevelopment, and translational research /
Saved in:
| Edition: | First edition. |
|---|---|
| Imprint: | Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2016] |
| Description: | xi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10489464 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Introduction to Executive Function in Preschool-Age Children
- I. Conceptualization and Measurement of Executive Function
- Chapter 1. Why Improving and Assessing Executive Functions Early in Life Is Critical
- Chapter 2. Incorporating Early Development Into the Measurement of Executive Function: The Need for a Continuum of Measures Across Development
- Chapter 3. Structure, Measurement, and Development of Preschool Executive Function
- Chapter 4. Longitudinal Measurement of Executive Function in Preschoolers
- Chapter 5. Conceptions of Executive Function and Regulation; When and to What Degree Do They Overlap?
- II. Neurodevelopment and Executive Function
- Chapter 6. Infant Cognitive Abilities: Potential Building Blocks of Later Executive Functions
- Chapter 7. Psychobiology of Executive Function in Early Development
- Chapter 8. Imaging Executive Functions in Typically and Atypically Developed Children
- Chapter 9. Development of Selective Sustained Attention: The Role of Executive Functions
- III. Executive Function and Translational Research on Risk and Prevention
- Chapter 10. Preschool Executive Functions in the Context of Family Risk
- Chapter 11. Socioeconomic Status and the Development of Executive Function: Behavioral and Neuroscience Approaches
- Chapter 12. Assessing Developmental Trajectories of Executive Function in Low-Income, Ethnic Minority Preschoolers: Opportunities and Challenges
- Chapter 13. Promoting the Development of Executive Functions Through Early Education and Prevention Programs
- Chapter 14. Conceptual Clutter and Measurement Mayhem: Proposals for Cross-Disciplinary Integration in Conceptualising and Measuring Executive Function
- Index
- About the Editors
