The Relationship Between Executive Functions and Language Abilities in Children: A Latent Variables Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We aimed to outline the latent variables approach for measuring nonverbal executive function (EF) skills in school-age children, and to examine the relationship between nonverbal EF skills and language performance in this age group.

Method

Seventy-one typically developing children, ages 8 through 11, participated in the study. Three EF components, inhibition, updating, and task-shifting, were each indexed using 2 nonverbal tasks. A latent variables approach was used to extract latent scores that represented each EF construct. Children were also administered common standardized language measures. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between EF and language skills.

Results

Nonverbal updating was associated with the Receptive La

SUBMITTER: Kaushanskaya M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5548084 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature