As promised, I am following up the last article summary with a series of abstracts related to executive function. First, Moffett et al. (2022) published “Enrollment in Pre-K and Children's Social-Emotional and Executive Functioning Skills: To what extent are associations sustained across time?”

I’m going to do two entries on executive function. Here, I’m going to summarize an article at length. Next time, I will present multiple specific articles. McGuckian et al. (2023) published “Development of Complex Executive Function Over Childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task” in Child Development. Here’s an edited version of their article (for those of you who hate research design and statistics, I have put in bold critical findings):