Developing adaptive control: Age-related differences in task choices and awareness of proactive and reactive control demands.
Developmental changes in executive function are often explained in terms of core cognitive processes and associated neural substrates. For example, younger children tend to engage control reactively in the moment as needed, whereas older children increasingly engage control proactively, in anticipat...
| Publicado en: | Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 561 - 573 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Jun2021
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