The Myth of Executive Functioning Missing Elements in Conceptualization, Evaluation, and Assessment /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Koziol, Leonard F. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Neuroscience,
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Neurosciences.; Rehabilitation.; Neuropsychology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.

Executive functioning: we measure it, assess it, document its development in youth, track its decline in age, and use it as a basis for diagnoses, treatment planning, and--of course--theories. Could it be possible that science has spent decades chasing a cognitive phantom?   Noting the lack of conse...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Problem Solving: Practical Examples and Additional Properties
• The Problem Solving Metaphor, Neuropsychology, and Exective Functioning
• Neuropsychological Constructs, Assumptions, and Executive Functioning: Revisiting Principles of Brain Organization
• Functional Domains, Unitary Constructs, and the Intergrated Brain
• Large Scale Brain Systems
• The Application of Large Scale Brain Systems to Practical "EF" Behavior: Revisting the Introductory Examples
• The Novelty -Routinization Principle of Brain Organization
• Clues to Understanding the Phylogeny of Behavioral Control
• Ways of Generating Behavior
• Movement, Thinking, Anticipation, and Banishing Exectuvie Functioning
• The Four Steps of the Development of the Cognitive Control System
• Abolishing the Executive and the Mind-Body Problem
• Why Cognitive Control is an Expansion of Cortical-Cerebellar and Cortical-Basal Ganglia Motor Control Systems
• The Cerebro-Cerebellar Underpinning of Cognitive Control
• Structure and Function of the Cerebro-Cerebellar Circuitary System
• The Basal Ganglia Underpinning of Cognitive Control: The Fronto-Striatal System
• Cognitive Control, Reward, and the Basal Ganglia
• Basal Ganglia Dynamics, Cognition, and Social Behavior
• Interim Summary
• How Well Do These Principles “FIT” Exceptional Cases?
• Why People Who Cannot Move Are Aable to Think
• The Exceptionality of the Congenitally Blind
• The Exceptionality of Deafness
• NEeuropsychological Testing and Neuropsychological Evaluation: Is There A Difference Between These Aprroaches?
• Missing Elements in the Neuropsychological Assessment of EF
• The Tradtional Neuropsychological Assessment Paradigm
• The Motor Examination
• The Evaluation of Reward Preferences
• Summary, Conclusions, and Future Directions.