Executive Function and the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task

Source: Laboratories of Nicholaus Noles and Judith Danovitch—University of Louisville

Infants are born with amazing cognitive resources at their disposal, but they don’t know how to use them effectively. In order to harness the power of their brains, humans must develop high-level cognitive proces...

Developing executive function is one of the key challenges faced by children as they age.

For example, a child must use several executive processes to stop playing with toys and start cleaning their room. Such processes include: inhibition?stopping what they?re doing, planning?the actions needed to clean the room, and attentional control?s...