{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Tomlinson RC"],"funding":["Brain & Behavior Research Foundation","National Institutes of Health; Office of the Director","NICHD NIH HHS","NIDA NIH HHS","NIA NIH HHS","Avielle Foundation","National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Mental Health","NIMH NIH HHS","National Institutes of Health; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development","National Science Foundation"],"pagination":["761-774"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12373008"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["134(7)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Difficulties with executive functioning are implicated in various forms of psychopathology. However, executive functioning task performance frequently demonstrates poor test-retest reliability, questionable convergent validity, and unstable associations with clinical measures. Model-based approaches may improve measurement by providing richer information about mechanisms underlying performance. The present study systematically compared a model-based measure of task-general executive functioning, efficiency of evidence accumulation (EEA), with traditional summary metrics extracted from the same tasks in a longitudinal study of adolescents (<i>N</i> = 637, age = 7-19). EEA demonstrated reasonable stability across development and strong cross-task reliability. Reflecting traditional metrics, EEA related to self-reported effortful control and parent-reported attention, externalizing and total problems. EEA and one traditional metric (go/no-go standard deviation of reaction time) correlated with inhibition-related brain activation in the anterior cingulate cortex and the right superior temporal gyrus. These findings highlight the potential of EEA as a task-general, stable, biologically plausible measure of executive functioning in adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)."],"journal":["Journal of psychopathology and clinical science"],"pubmed_title":["Efficiency of evidence accumulation as a formal model-based measure of task-general executive functioning in adolescents."],"pmcid":["PMC12373008"],"funding_grant_id":["K23 DA051561","UG3 MH114249","R01 HD093334","R21 MH130939","T32 AG049663","R01 HD066040","R01 MH081813","UH3 MH114249"],"pubmed_authors":["Tomlinson RC","Sripada C","Hyde LW","Burt SA","Weigard AS","Jonides J","Klump KL"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Efficiency of evidence accumulation as a formal model-based measure of task-general executive functioning in adolescents.","description":"Difficulties with executive functioning are implicated in various forms of psychopathology. However, executive functioning task performance frequently demonstrates poor test-retest reliability, questionable convergent validity, and unstable associations with clinical measures. Model-based approaches may improve measurement by providing richer information about mechanisms underlying performance. The present study systematically compared a model-based measure of task-general executive functioning, efficiency of evidence accumulation (EEA), with traditional summary metrics extracted from the same tasks in a longitudinal study of adolescents (<i>N</i> = 637, age = 7-19). EEA demonstrated reasonable stability across development and strong cross-task reliability. Reflecting traditional metrics, EEA related to self-reported effortful control and parent-reported attention, externalizing and total problems. EEA and one traditional metric (go/no-go standard deviation of reaction time) correlated with inhibition-related brain activation in the anterior cingulate cortex and the right superior temporal gyrus. These findings highlight the potential of EEA as a task-general, stable, biologically plausible measure of executive functioning in adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Oct","modification":"2026-06-01T07:59:36.097Z","creation":"2026-04-08T10:43:33.799Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12373008","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40839478"],"doi":["10.1037/abn0001043"]}}