Developing Cognitive Control Processes Mechanisms, Implications, and Interventions, Volume 37

by Zelazo, Philip David; Sera, Maria D.

• ISBN13: 9780470422748
• ISBN10: 0470422742
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-10-21
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The collected papers from the most prestigious symposia in the field of child development provide scholars, students, and practitioners with access to the work of key researchers in human development. This volume focuses on changes in our understanding of cogisnitive control processes—constructs important to the field since Wundt and Freud. Our understanding of these constructs has advanced dramatically in recent years—both empirically and conceptually. This collection brings generalists and specialists alike up-to-date on this central process of human development and the implications for this new knowledge on school success and other areas.

Author Biography

Philip David Zelazo is the Nancy M. and John E. Lindahl Professor in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. He studies the development and neural bases of executive function, or the conscious control of thought, action, and emotion. His work has focused on a number of influential ideas, including the notion that the executive function depends, in part, on the development of the ability to use increasingly complex, higher-order rules.

Maria D. Sera is a full professor in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota.?Her research focuses on the relation between language and cognitive development.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 What is Cognitive Control?

Philip David Zelazo and Jacob E. Anderson

Chapter 2 Development of neural networks supporting goal-directed behavior

Elizabeth L. Johnson, Sarah E. Munro, and Silvia A. Bunge

Chapter 3 Developing Cognitive Control: The Costs and Benefits of Active, Abstract Representations

Yuko Munakata, Hannah R. Snyder, and Christopher H. Chatham

Chapter 4 The Emerging Executive: Using Dynamic Neural Fields to Understand the Development of Cognitive Control

John P. Spencer and Aaron T. Buss

Chapter 5 Stress and the Development of Executive Functions:  Experiential Canalization of Brain and Behavior

Clancy Blair

Chapter 6 Individual differences in Child Temperament and their effect on cognitive control

Nathan A. Fox

Chapter 7 Want to Optimize Executive Functions and Academic Outcomes?  Simple, just Nourish the Human Spirit.

Adele Diamond

Chapter 8 Development of Cognitive Control: Where are we and what’s next?

Maria D. Sera and Nicole Scott