title: Qualitative change in executive control during childhood and adulthood.
abstract: Executive control development typically has been conceptualized to result from quantitative changes in the efficiency of the underlying processes. In contrast, the present study addressed the possibility of qualitative change with age by examining how children and adults detect task switches. Participants in three age groups (5- and 10-year-old children, young adults) completed two conditions of a cued task-switching paradigm where task cues were presented either in isolation or in conjunction with transition cues. Five-year-olds performed better with transition cues, whereas the reverse effect was observed at age 10 and with adults. Unlike 5-year-olds who detect switches after semantically processing cues, older participants strategically detect switches based on perceptual processing only. Age-related qualitative changes promote increasingly optimal adjustment of executive resources with age.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0345, United States. nicolas.chevalier@colorado.edu
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chevalier
authors.forename: Kristina L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Huber
authors.forename: Sandra A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Wiebe
authors.forename: Kimberly Andrews
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Espy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003463:Cues; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D055815:Young Adult
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