Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab - Adele Diamond - 0 views
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Our lab specializes in studying a region of the brain known as prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the cognitive abilities that depend on it, especially in young children.
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Those abilities are often called executive functions and consist of cognitive control functions such as cognitive flexibility, inhibition (attentional control, self-control), working memory, reasoning, and problem-solving.
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We have recently documented marked advances in executive functions due to an early childhood school curriculum (Tools of the Mind) that requires no specialists or expensive equipment, just regular teachers in regular classrooms.
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field devoted to understanding how children's minds change as they grow up, interrelations between that & how the brain is changing, and environmental and biological influences on that.