Función Ejecutiva en la Investigación de los Trastornos del Comportamiento del Niño y del Adolescente

Abstract

Executive function (EF) is a complex cognitive activity, which has focused from different models, allowing diverse theoretical objects that could be representing assorted mental skills in each case. In this paper EF models are panoramically presented. Relationships between EF and frontal lobes circuitries are commented. Developmental hierarchical hypothesis of executive function is exposed, which is base upon problem solving (PS) model and on the acquisition of diverse awareness and consciousness levels. Finally, several researches about child EF in the international literature and in Colombia are presented.

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