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Directed Attention as a Common Resource for Executive Functioning and Self-Regulation

2010; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1745691609356784

1745-6924

Stephen Kaplan, Marc G. Berman,

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Research on executive functioning and on self-regulation have each identified a critical resource that is central to that domain and is susceptible to depletion. In addition, studies have shown that self-regulation tasks and executive-functioning tasks interact with each other, suggesting that they may share resources. Other research has focused specifically on restoring what we propose is the shared resource between self-regulation and executive functioning. Utilizing a theory-based natural environment intervention, these studies have found improvements in executive-functioning performance and self-regulation effectiveness, suggesting that the natural environment intervention restores this shared resource.