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Assessing frontal lobe functioning in children: Views from developmental psychology

Welsh, Marilyn C., Pennington, Bruce F.·1988·Developmental Neuropsychology
DOI 10.1080/87565648809540405
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This review presents the potential contribution of developmental psychology to a more complete understanding of the nature of frontal lobe functioning in children. The cognitive construct of “executive function” has been adopted as a possible behavioral marker of prefrontal functioning from infancy through childhood. Instead of focusing exclusively on mature, adult‐level functioning of the frontal lobes, our article reviews evidence for the view that frontally mediated executive functions emerge in the first year of life and continue to develop at least until puberty, if not beyond. A key theme in this review is that measures used to detect executive functions must be developmentally appropriate, and suggestions regarding viable executive function measures are offered. The contribution of the animal models tested by Diamond and Goldman‐Rakic to our understanding of rudimentary executive functions in infancy is discussed. Another behavioral domain, self‐control, is proposed as a possible source of frontal assessment tools for very young children. In addition, several cognitive tasks from developmental psychology are highlighted as potential frontal measures for school‐age children. Critical issues and current problems associated with research in developmental neuropsy‐chology are discussed.

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Authors
Welsh, M. C., & Pennington, B. F.
Venue
Developmental Neuropsychology
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
1988-01
Volume
4
Issue
3
Pages
199-230
ISSN
  • 1532-6942 (ISSN-L)
  • 8756-5641
DOI
10.1080/87565648809540405
OpenAlex
W2095684436
Cited by
852
References
138
FWCI
4.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
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