Editorial: Training and Enhancing Executive Function

Frontiers in Psychology

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Gian Marco Marzocchi¹  Maria Carmen Usai²  Steven J. Howard³ 

[1] Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca;Department of Education, University of Genoa;Early Start and School of Education, University of Wollongong

关键词: executive functions;    training;    rehabilitation;    cognitive control;    technological interventions;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02031

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Executive Function (EF) refers to a complex set of cognitive control processes necessary for adaptivefunctioning in daily life. EFs are predictive of intellectual achievement, health, wealth, and qualityof life across the entire life span (Moffitt et al., 2011), often more so than IQ or socioeconomicstatus (Bertollo and Yerys, 2019). Evidence suggests that EFs can be distinguished into three corecapacities (working memory, inhibition, and shifting), which combine to support the higher-ordercognitive processing (e.g., planning, problem solving) required to remain goal-directed, resistcontrary impulses and distraction, and pursue more-positive (rather than most-immediate)outcomes. Given this foundational importance, there has been increasing interest in improvingEFs. The goals of this line of research have been 2-fold: to improve EFs; and, as a consequence,stimulate generalized improvements to other cognitive and life domains.

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