题目：An integrative approach to measuring executive functions in typically and atypically developing young children

报告人：王腾飞 教授，浙江大学

时间：2025年5月14日上午10点

地点：心理学部213

报告人简介：王腾飞博士，浙江大学心理与行为科学系教授，博士生导师，求是青年学者。主要从事智力、学习与思维的个体差异，儿童青少年认知能力的发展及脑机制，孤独症儿童的认知缺陷等研究。近5年来，以第一作者或通讯作者身份在 Psychological Bulletin, Intelligence, Journal of Memory and Language等权威期刊上发表SSCI论文多篇。承担国家自然科学基金、国家社会科学基金、科技部“脑科学与类脑研究”科技创新2030青年项目、教育部人文社会科学研究项目等课题。担任Intelligence等期刊编委。

报告摘要：Executive function (EF) refers to the goal-oriented ability to monitor and manage various cognitive processes, including inhibitory control, working memory and switching. It has been theorized that children with autism have deficits in executive functioning. However, there are still considerable discrepancies in empirical findings. We used an approach which simultaneously manipulates different EF processes in the same experimental paradigm to more purely measure specific EFs. The results showed that the newly designed Simon task and Go/No-Go task appropriately measured inhibitory control and working memory in young children. We further used this newly developed paradigm to examine the impaired characteristics of high-functioning autistic children in interference inhibition, response inhibition, and flexible cognitive control. It was found that high-functioning children with autism were not impaired on these components of cold EFs compared with age- and IQ-matched typically developing children.