The Myth of Executive Functioning: Missing Elements in Conceptualization, Evaluation, and Assessment

by Leonard F. Koziol

Executive functioning: we measure it, assess it, document its development in youth, track its decline in age and use it as a basis for diagnoses, treatment planning and-of course-theories. Could it be possible that science has spent decades chasing a cognitive phantom?

Noting the lack of consensus concerning definition, component skills, and location within the brain, The Myth of Executive Functioning calls basic assumptions, prominent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319044761
• ISBN13: 9783319044767
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"