Developmentally Sensitive Measures of Executive Function in Preschool Children

The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis

2000 • 13,955 citations

Behavioral inhibition, sustained attention, and executive functions: Constructing a unifying theory of ADHD.

1997 • 6,883 citations

Delay of Gratification in Children

1989 • 3,286 citations

Working Memory Capacity as Executive Attention

2002 • 2,369 citations

Individual Differences in Inhibitory Control and Children's Theory of Mind

2001 • 1,967 citations

Effortful control in early childhood: Continuity and change, antecedents, and implications for social development.

2000 • 1,841 citations

Scaling of Theory‐of‐Mind Tasks

2004 • 1,760 citations

Executive Function Deficits in High‐Functioning Autistic Individuals: Relationship to Theory of Mind

1991 • 1,700 citations

The relationship between cognition and action: performance of children 312–7 years old on a stroop- like day-night test

1994 • 1,502 citations

School readiness: Integrating cognition and emotion in a neurobiological conceptualization of children's functioning at school entry.

2002 • 1,415 citations

A normative‐developmental study of executive function: A window on prefrontal function in children

1991 • 1,320 citations

The rise and fall of the inhibitory mechanism: Toward a unified theory of cognitive development and aging

1992 • 982 citations

Inhibitory Control in Young Children and Its Role in Emerging Internalization

1996 • 904 citations

The Development of Executive Function in Early Childhood

2000 • 887 citations

Theory of mind and rule-based reasoning

1995 • 880 citations

How specific is the relation between executive function and theory of mind? Contributions of inhibitory control and working memory

2002 • 774 citations

Development of an aspect of executive control: Development of the abilities to remember what I said and to ?Do as I say, not as I do?

1996 • 708 citations

Prefrontal Cortex Cognitive Deficits in Children Treated Early and Continuously for PKU

1997 • 708 citations

Early Development of Executive Function: A Problem-Solving Framework

1997 • 677 citations

The Contribution of Executive Functions to Emergent Mathematic Skills in Preschool Children

2004 • 641 citations

Assessment of Hot and Cool Executive Function in Young Children: Age-Related Changes and Individual Differences

2005 • 631 citations

Executive Function and Theory of Mind: Stability and Prediction From Ages 2 to 3.

2004 • 629 citations

Individual differences in executive functioning and theory of mind: An investigation of inhibitory control and planning ability

2004 • 582 citations

I. The Development of Executive Function

2003 • 578 citations

Inhibitory Control in Young Children and Its Role in Emerging Internalization

1996 • 571 citations

Behavioral inhibition, sustained attention, and executive functions: Constructing a unifying theory of ADHD.

1997 • 537 citations

Development of “hot” executive function: The children’s gambling task

2004 • 506 citations

An Observational Study of Children's Attempts to Monitor Their Expressive Behavior

1984 • 442 citations

An interactive framework for examining prefrontal cognitive processes

1996 • 390 citations

Executive Function and Theory of Mind in 2 Year Olds: A Family Affair?

2005 • 381 citations

Deception in 3-year-olds.

1989 • 363 citations

Conditions under which young children can hold two rules in mind and inhibit a prepotent response.

2002 • 354 citations

The development of children's theory of mind: The working memory explanation

1995 • 319 citations

Inhibitory Self-Control in Preschool Children.

1984 • 309 citations

Sensitivity to spatial conflict and the development of self‐regulation in children 24–36 months of age

2000 • 301 citations

Using Path Analysis to Understand Executive Function Organization in Preschool Children

2004 • 294 citations

Less Is More

2005 • 292 citations

Theory of Mind in Preadolescence: Relations Between Social Understanding and Social Competence

1999 • 285 citations

Finding your marbles: Does preschoolers' strategic behavior predict later understanding of mind?

1998 • 279 citations

Executive Function in Preschool Children: Examination Through Everyday Behavior

2004 • 269 citations

The Relation between Acquisition of a Theory of Mind and the Capacity to Hold in Mind

1998 • 236 citations

An experimental analysis of the behavioral disturbance produced by a left frontal arachnoidal endothelioma (meningioma)

1964 • 175 citations

The relation between theory of mind and rule use: evidence from persons with autism‐spectrum disorders

2002 • 162 citations

An Elaboration of Guttman Scaling with Rasch Models for Measurement

1985 • 153 citations

Dimensions of cognition measured by the tower of London and other cognitive tasks in head‐injured children and adolescents

1996 • 134 citations

Low-Level Lead Exposure, Executive Functioning, and Learning in Early Childhood

2003 • 134 citations

Research on executive function in a neurodevelopmental context: Application of clinical measures

1996 • 132 citations

Effortful control in early childhood: Continuity and change, antecedents, and implications for social development.

2000 • 112 citations

Inhibitory Processes in Young Children and Individual Variation in Short-Term Memory

2005 • 107 citations

Verbal Self-Regulation in a Children's Game: Impulsive Errors on "Simon Says"

1973 • 102 citations

Executive Functions in Preschool Children Born Preterm: Application of Cognitive Neuroscience Paradigms

2002 • 98 citations

Attentional skills and executive functions in children with early hydrocephalus

1996 • 92 citations

Appraising and managing knowledge: Metacognitive skills after childhood head injury

1996 • 92 citations

Representational flexibility and response control in a multistep multilocation search task.

1998 • 91 citations

An experimental approach to executive fingerprinting in young children

2002 • 74 citations

Individual differences in the reactivity of young infants.

1989 • 66 citations

Development of an aspect of executive control: Development of the abilities to remember what I said and to “Do as I say, not as I do”

1996 • 59 citations

Executive dysfunction in children with early brain disease: Outcomes postHaemophilus influenzaemeningitis

1996 • 38 citations

Conditions under which young children can hold two rules in mind and inhibit a prepotent response.

2002 • 35 citations

Executive functions in children: Introduction to the special series

1996 • 34 citations

Individual differences in the reactivity of young infants.

1989 • 14 citations