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Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis To Understand Executive Control In Preschool Children: I. Latent Structure, Sandra A. Wiebe, Kimberly A. Espy, David Charak

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory: Faculty and Staff Publications

*This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. http://content.apa.org/journals/0012-1649 Although many tasks have been developed recently to study executive control in the preschool years, the constructs that underlie performance on these tasks are poorly understood. In particular, it is unclear whether executive control is comprised of multiple, separable cognitive abilities (e.g., inhibition and working memory) or whether it is unitary in nature. A sample of 243 normally developing children between 2.25 and 6 years of age completed a battery of ageappropriate executive control tasks. Confirmatory factor analysis …