Publication Date:
2011-08-20
Description:
To be successful takes creativity, flexibility, self-control, and discipline. Central to all those are executive functions, including mentally playing with ideas, giving a considered rather than an impulsive response, and staying focused. Diverse activities have been shown to improve children's executive functions: computerized training, noncomputerized games, aerobics, martial arts, yoga, mindfulness, and school curricula. All successful programs involve repeated practice and progressively increase the challenge to executive functions. Children with worse executive functions benefit most from these activities; thus, early executive-function training may avert widening achievement gaps later. To improve executive functions, focusing narrowly on them may not be as effective as also addressing emotional and social development (as do curricula that improve executive functions) and physical development (shown by positive effects of aerobics, martial arts, and yoga).〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159917/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159917/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Diamond, Adele -- Lee, Kathleen -- DA19685/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- MH 071893/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA019685/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA019685-20/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH071893/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH071893-05/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Aug 19;333(6045):959-64. doi: 10.1126/science.1204529.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉University of British Columbia and Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A1, Canada. adele.diamond@ubc.ca〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21852486" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Child
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Child, Preschool
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Computers
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Curriculum
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Emotions
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*Executive Function
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Female
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Humans
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Learning
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Male
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Martial Arts/education
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Memory, Short-Term
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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