[CaBSSem] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar: Fri Jan 19, Ulrich Mueller (UVic)

[Jordana Wynn]

The Cognition and Brain Science Seminar (CaBSSem) will take place this Friday at 3:00pm in the Psychology Reading Room (Cornett A228) featuring Ulrich Mueller (UVic) speaking on "" (abstract below).

Many attend FTF, but we also livestream sessions at

https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81257812980?pwd=VndFY3hueDA2cWl0SXljK0ZSYVhxdz09

For students/faculty at UVic, best practice is to launch the Zoom app and then click "Sign in with SSO" so that you access the call from the UVic Zoom.

Schedule at https://www.wynnlab.org/cabssem

Hope to see you Friday!


Development of Executive Function in Preschool Children

My presentation will provide a broad overview of some central issue in the development of executive function address during early childhood. Executive function undergoes considerable change during early childhood, with particularly rapid changes between 3 and 5 years of age First, I will illustrate some of these changes for a few widely used executive function tasks. Second, I will present experimental approaches that attempt to clarify the source of children's difficulties. Third, I will address the ecological validity of performance-based measures of executive function, and present data on the relation between performance-based measures of executive function and informant-report measures.  Fourth, I will discuss the contribution of parenting to interindividual differences in executive function, drawing on longitudinal studies we conducted in my lab. Finally, I will discuss recent criticisms of the widely used structural (factor-analytic) approach to executive function and suggest that more process-oriented approaches are necessary to gain an adequate understanding of executive function development.



Jordana Wynn, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Victoria

Pronouns: She/ Her

I acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
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