Executive Attention: A Case Study
Executive attention processes aid in supporting attentional orientating networks as they are viewed as more purified forms of self-regulation that is involved in modulating reactivity as the child matures (Rothbart & Rueda, 2005). It is the maturity of interdependent skills that is required for goal-directed activity that involves the use of mental representation of the desired behaviour to guide goal attainment and continuously modifying existing behaviour to direct them towards future goals. This process can be made clear by an example of a child using problem solving strategies to make a beaded necklace. The child may tell himself that he must hold the string while inserting the bead on the other end however the hole in the bead is apparently too small to fit onto
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The brain regions related to alert state regulation is the brains norepinephrine systems which start in the midbrain and meets the frontal and parietal areas. The second neural attention network is the orientating network which involves orientating to events in one’s sensory field and it is associated with both the inferior and superior parietal areas of the brain (Posner & Fan, 2008) along with activation in the frontal eye fields during sensory perception. Finally the third network, executive function aims to plan and detect errors as well as resolving conflict between different brain networks and the anterior cingulate is the brain region responsible for its functionality (Botvinick, Braver, Barch, Carter & Cohen, 2001). Activation of different brain networks however may change during different stages of development, these changes in focalization of brain activity may also appear during different types of cognitive tasks. As children develop, cognitive task performance is associated with smaller patterns of neural connections which progressively distribute activity from predominantly local to more global connections (Fair et al., 2009), this is evident during maturation of cognitive
The brain regions related to alert state regulation is the brains norepinephrine systems which start in the midbrain and meets the frontal and parietal areas. The second neural attention network is the orientating network which involves orientating to events in one’s sensory field and it is associated with both the inferior and superior parietal areas of the brain (Posner & Fan, 2008) along with activation in the frontal eye fields during sensory perception. Finally the third network, executive function aims to plan and detect errors as well as resolving conflict between different brain networks and the anterior cingulate is the brain region responsible for its functionality (Botvinick, Braver, Barch, Carter & Cohen, 2001). Activation of different brain networks however may change during different stages of development, these changes in focalization of brain activity may also appear during different types of cognitive tasks. As children develop, cognitive task performance is associated with smaller patterns of neural connections which progressively distribute activity from predominantly local to more global connections (Fair et al., 2009), this is evident during maturation of cognitive