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  • Title: Age- and schooling-related effects on executive functions in young children: a natural experiment.
    Author: Burrage MS, Ponitz CC, McCready EA, Shah P, Sims BC, Jewkes AM, Morrison FJ.
    Journal: Child Neuropsychol; 2008 Nov; 14(6):510-24. PubMed ID: 18982508.
    Abstract:
    We employed a cutoff design in order to examine age- and schooling-related effects on executive functions. Specifically, we looked at development of working memory and response inhibition over the period of 1 school year in prekindergarten and kindergarten students born within 4 months of each other. All children improved on executive function and word-decoding tasks from the beginning to the end of the year. Additionally, we found prekindergarten- and kindergarten-schooling effects for the working memory and word-decoding tasks (p < .05), and a trend-level prekindergarten-schooling effect for the response inhibition task (p < .10).
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