An Adaptable, Open-Access Test Battery to Study the Fractionation of Executive-Functions in Diverse Populations.

ABSTRACT: The umbrella-term 'executive functions' (EF) includes various domain-general, goal-directed cognitive abilities responsible for behavioral self-regulation. The influential unity and diversity model of EF posits the existence of three correlated yet separable executive domains: inhibition, shifting and updating. These domains may be influenced by factors such as socioeconomic status (SES) and culture, possibly due to the way EF tasks are devised and to biased choice of stimuli, focusing on first-world testees. Here, we propose a FREE (Free Research Executive Function Evaluation) test battery that includes two open-access tasks for each of the three abovementioned executive domains to allow latent variables to be obtained. The tasks were selected from those that have been shown to be represe

SUBMITTER: Zanini GAV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8042159 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature