Les fonctions executives chez l'enfant: Concepts et developpement.: Executive functions during childhood: Concepts and Development.

摘要: While executive functions were long considered a mysterious entity, manifested only from adolescence, it has now been well established that these involve multitude of processes and the first forms thought action control appear at very early stage development. Paradoxically, large number studies on development make difficult to draw coherent picture. The author closely examines in pursuit two principal objectives. First, he seeks set out different concepts within studies, especially by positioning relation working memory attention. Then sets reveal main lines inhibition, maintenance updating cognitive flexibility. Some factors promote or restrict this are also underlined. At end analysis, some new paths for research suggested quest better understanding nature links between their