Developing Cognitive and Executive Functions Across Lifespan
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Cognition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2025 | Viewed by 344
Special Issue Editors
Interests: parental experience and its influence on brain development; remediation of deficits arising from early brain injury; executive function and its relationship to language and motor development
Interests: sensorimotor integration and control; cognitive and motor interactions; development of sensorimotor functions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cognitive skills are mental processes that develop, mature, and evolve throughout our lifetime. Executive functions are a prime example of such skills. Executive functions encompass a wide range of abilities, including attentional control, self-regulation, inhibition, working memory, goal setting, planning and organizing, problem solving, mental flexibility, and abstract reasoning.
These core cognitive skills, along with others such as language, numeracy, and social competency, play a crucial role in our daily lives and overall functioning. Numerous studies have shown that well-developed cognitive abilities are strong predictors of success in various domains, including academic achievement, job security and financial stability, overall health and well-being, and the ability to make meaningful contributions to society.
Given the significant impact of cognitive skills on our daily activities and the fact that they can be learned and strengthened over time, it is crucial to explore how these abilities develop, mature, and decline across the lifespan, as well as the complex interplay between different cognitive processes. Furthermore, it is important to develop and test effective, evidence-based strategies that strengthen and optimize cognitive functioning.
We now invite submissions for papers on all areas of cognitive development, including but not limited to topics related to executive function, attention, language, memory, numerical processing, reasoning and logic, self-regulation, social competency, spatial ability, and theory of mind.
Dr. Robbin Gibb
Dr. Claudia Gonzalez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- attention
- language
- memory
- numerical processing
- reasoning and logic
- self-regulation
- social competency
- spatial ability
- theory of mind
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