Thursday 19 April: 09.00h – 17.30h

9.00h

Registration and coffee

10.00h

Welcome

10.05h

Keynote 1: Gaia Scerif
How does attentional control constrain learning?
 

10.50h

11.10h

11.30h
 

11.50h
 

12.10h

Session 1: Executive functioning: training and academic attainment

Cornelia Kegel: Executive Attention Mediates the Role of the Dopamine Receptor D4 Gene (DRD4) on Reading Acquisition in a Non-Clinical Sample

Sam Wass: Training attentional control in infancy

Evelyn Kroesbergen: Training executive functions in kindergarten children improves math

Meijke Kolkman: Domain General and Domain Specific Precursors of Math Learning in First Graders

Discussion: Discussant: Lex Wijnroks

12.25h

Lunch

13.30h

Keynote 2: Mariette Huizinga
The older, the more flexible - but how? A Diffusion Model Analysis of Developmental Changes of Children's Task Switching Ability
 

14.15h

 14.35h

 14.55h

 
15.15h

15.35h

Session 2: Assessment and development of executive function

Daniel J Carroll: Precursors to Cognitive Flexibility: Rule-switching in two-year-olds

Hanna Mulder: The role of private speech in self-control in toddlers

Charlie Lewis: Why are measurement issues in executive function so crucial and why do we need to model performance across trials and time??

Sarai Boelema: Longitudinal investigation of executive functioning in early and late adolescence: a TRAILS study.

Discussion: Discussant: Lucy Cragg

15.50h

Coffee break

16.20h
 

16.40h

 
17.00h

Session 3: Executive function and language

David John Messer: Executive Functioning and Decoding in Young People with and without Language Impairments

Mirain Rhys: Exploring bilingual and L2 speakers’ performance on Executive Functioning tasks: issues from Wales.

Discussion: Discussant: Paul Leseman

17.30h

End and drinks

19.00h

Dinner

Fridayy 20 April: 09.15h – 17.00h

09.15h

Keynote 3: Gunilla Bohlin
Issues in understanding the role of EF in children’s behavior problems
 

10.00h

10.20h
 

10.40h

11.00h

Session 4: Executive function and disorders

Caterina Gawrilow: Development of Executive Functions in ADHD

Kim Schoemaker: Development of executive functions in young children (4-6 years) with externalizing behavior problems

Maddie Groom :The effect of motivational incentives on electrophysiological measures of response control in children with ADHD

General discussion

11.15h

Coffee break

11.45h

Keynote 4: Lisa Jonkman
What do event-related brain potentials tell us about the maturation of working memory capacity –attention control relations during adolescence?
 

12.30h

Lunch

13.30h

Poster session 1: Even numbered posters
 

14.30h

Poster session 2: Odd numbered posters

15.30h

Coffee break

16.00h

Keynote 5: Claire Hughes
Executive Function from 2 to 10: Stability and predictors of individual differences
 

16.45h

End