Speaker: Professor Christopher Jarrold (University of Bristol)
Abstract
Executive or cognitive control refers to our ability to guide our behaviour in line with our internal goals, rather than simply responding to action cues in the environment.
Executive control develops with age and may be compromised in some neurodevelopmental conditions. Studies of the typical and atypical development of executive control in children have attempted to measure its hypothesised subcomponents (including working memory and inhibition, and often shifting in addition) but have tended to use separate tasks to index these.
This risks introducing task-specific noise and relies on the arguable assumption that such tasks are relatively process pure.
In this talk Professor Christopher Jarrold will describe a study in which they attempted to circumvent these issues by systematically varying working memory and inhibitory loads within the same task. Specifically, in their pre-registered study.
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