1. Friedman NP, Miyake A. Unity and diversity of executive functions: Individual differences as a window on cognitive structure. Cortex. 2017; 86: 186-204. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/j.cortex.2016.04.023]

2. Roebers CM. Executive function and metacognition: Towards a unifying framework of cognitive self-regulation. Dev Rev. 2017; 45: 31-51. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/j.dr.2017.04.001]

3. Masoomi Mofrad T, Alizade H, Khamesan A. Comparison the executive functions of inhibition and problem solving in adolescents with and without substance abuse. Research on Addiction. 2015; 8(32): 137-156. [Persian]. [Link]

4. Miller MR, Giesbrecht GF, Müller U, McInerney RJ, Kerns KA. A latent variable approach to determining the structure of executive function in preschool children. J Cogn Dev. 2012; 13(3): 395-423. [Link] [DOI:10.1080/15248372.2011.585478]

5. Rose SA, Feldman JF, Jankowski JJ, Van Rossem R. The structure of memory in infants and toddlers: an SEM study with full-terms and preterms. Dev Sci. 2011; 14(1): 83-91. [Link] [DOI:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00959.x]

6. Abdolmohamadi K, Alizadeh H, Ghadiri Sourman Abadi F, Masuleh T, Fathi A. Psychometric properties of behavioral rating scale of executive functions (brief) in children aged 6 to 12 years. Quarterly of Educational Measurement. 2018; 8(30): 135-151. [Persian]. [Link]

7. Ardila A. Is intelligence equivalent to executive functions? Psicothema. 2018; 30(2): 159-164. [Link]

8. Halse MK. Stability and predictors of change in executive functions from the age of 6 to 8 [Master thesis]. [Trondheim, Norway]: Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; 2014, pp: 1-35. [Link]

9. Vandenbroucke L, Verschueren K, Ceulemans E, De Smedt B, De Roover K, Baeyens D. Family demographic profiles and their relationship with the quality of executive functioning subcomponents in kindergarten. Br J Dev Psychol. 2016; 34(2): 226-244. [Link] [DOI:10.1111/bjdp.12127]

10. Bridgett DJ, Valentino K, Hayden LC. The contribution of children's temperamental fear and effortful control to restraint and seclusion during inpatient treatment in a psychiatric hospital. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2012; 43(6): 821-836. [Link] [DOI:10.1007/s10578-012-0298-x]

11. Diamond A. Executive functions. Annu Rev Psychol. 2013; 64: 135-168. [Link] [DOI:10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143750]

12. Carlson SM, Zelazo PD, Faja S. Executive function. In: Zelazo PD, editor. The oxford handbook of developmental psychology, vol. 1: body and mind. New York: Oxford University Press; 2013, pp: 706-743. [Link] [DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199958450.013.0025]

13. Müller U, Baker L, Yeung E. A developmental systems approach to executive function. Adv Child Dev Behav. 2013; 45: 39-66. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-397946-9.00003-8]

14. Hughes C. Changes and challenges in 20 years of research into the development of executive functions. Infant Child Dev. 2011; 20(3): 251-271. [Link] [DOI:10.1002/icd.736]

15. Bernier A, Carlson SM, Whipple N. From external regulation to self-regulation: early parenting precursors of young children's executive functioning. Child Dev. 2010; 81(1): 326-339. [Link] [DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01397.x]

16. Zelazo PD, Carlson SM, Kesek A. The development of executive function in childhood. In: Nelson CA, Luciana M, editor. Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA, US: MIT Press; 2008, pp: 553-574. [Link]

17. Blair C, Raver CC. Individual development and evolution: experiential canalization of self-regulation. Dev Psychol. 2012; 48(3): 647-657. [Link] [DOI:10.1037/a0026472]

18. Baumrind D. The influence of parenting style on adolescent competence and substance use. J Early Adolesc. 1991; 11(1): 56-95. [Link] [DOI:10.1177/0272431691111004]

19. Hillstrom KA. Are acculturation and parenting styles related to academic achievement among Latino students? [Ph.D. thesis]. [California, USA]: Faculty of the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California; 2009. [Link]

20. Howenstein J, Kumar A, Casamassimo PS, McTigue D, Coury D, Yin H. Correlating parenting styles with child behavior and caries. Pediatr Dent. 2015; 37(1): 59-64. [Link]

21. Hatamy A, Fathi E, Gorji Z, Esmaeily M. The relationship between parenting styles and attachment styles in men and women with infidelity. Procedia Soc Behav Sci. 2011; 15: 3743-3747. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.04.366]

22. Matte-Gagné C, Bernier A. Prospective relations between maternal autonomy support and child executive functioning: investigating the mediating role of child language ability. J Exp Child Psychol. 2011; 110(4): 611-625. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/j.jecp.2011.06.006]

23. Mothes L, Kristensen CH, Grassi‐Oliveira R, Fonseca RP, de Lima Argimon II, Irigaray TQ. Childhood maltreatment and executive functions in adolescents. Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2015; 20(1): 56-62. [Link] [DOI:10.1111/camh.12068]

24. Sosic-Vasic Z, Kröner J, Schneider S, Vasic N, Spitzer M, Streb J. The association between parenting behavior and executive functioning in children and young adolescents. Front Psychol. 2017; 8: 472. [Link] [DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00472]

25. Hashemi Malekshah S, Alizadeh H, Pezeshk S, Soheili F. The effectiveness of Adlerian parent training on executive functions in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Advances in Cognitive Science. 2017; 18(4): 88-99. [Persian]. [Link]

26. Sarsour K, Sheridan M, Jutte D, Nuru-Jeter A, Hinshaw S, Boyce WT. Family socioeconomic status and child executive functions: the roles of language, home environment, and single parenthood. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2011; 17(1): 120-132. [Link] [DOI:10.1017/S1355617710001335]

27. Rutter M, O'Connor TG, English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) Study Team. Are there biological programming effects for psychological development? Findings from a study of Romanian adoptees. Dev Psychol. 2004; 40(1): 81-94. [Link] [DOI:10.1037/0012-1649.40.1.81]

28. Kishiyama MM, Boyce WT, Jimenez AM, Perry LM, Knight RT. Socioeconomic Disparities Affect Prefrontal Function in Children. J Cogn Neurosci. 2009; 21(6): 1106-1115. [Link] [DOI:10.1162/jocn.2009.21101]

29. Diamond A. The interplay of biology and the environment broadly defined. Dev Psychol. 2009; 45(1): 1-8. [Link] [DOI:10.1037/a0014601]

30. McDermott JM, Westerlund A, Zeanah CH, Nelson CA, Fox NA. Early adversity and neural correlates of executive function: Implications for academic adjustment. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2012; 2(1): S59-S66. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/j.dcn.2011.09.008]

31. Hackman DA, Gallop R, Evans GW, Farah MJ. Socioeconomic status and executive function: developmental trajectories and mediation. Dev Sci. 2015; 18(5): 686-702. [Link] [DOI:10.1111/desc.12246]

32. Last BS, Lawson GM, Breiner K, Steinberg L, Farah MJ. Childhood socioeconomic status and executive function in childhood and beyond. PLoS ONE. 2018; 13(8): e0202964. [Link] [DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0202964]

33. Blair C. Developmental science and executive function. Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2016; 25(1): 3-7. [Link] [DOI:10.1177/0963721415622634]

34. Blair C, Granger D, Peters Razza R. Cortisol reactivity is positively related to executive function in preschool children attending head start. Child Dev. 2005; 76(3): 554-567. [Link] [DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00863.x]

35. Chisholm D, Sweeny K, Sheehan P, Rasmussen B, Smit F, Cuijpers P, Saxena S. Scaling-up treatment of depression and anxiety: a global return on investment analysis. Lancet Psychiatry. 2016;3(5):415-424. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30024-4]

36. Vieira MB, Greca DV, Nardi AE, Júnior EC, Fonseca RP, Fernandez JL. Funções cognitivas no transtorno do pânico: um estudo comparativo com controles saudáveis. Psico. 2011; 42(1): 87-97. [Link]

37. Yochim BP, Mueller AE, Segal DL. Late life anxiety is associated with decreased memory and executive functioning in community dwelling older adults. J Anxiety Disord. 2013; 27(6): 567-575. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.10.010]

38. Vergara-Lopez C, Lopez-Vergara HI, Colder CR. Executive functioning moderates the relationship between motivation and adolescent depressive symptoms. Pers Individ Dif. 2013; 54(1): 18-22. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2012.07.034]

39. Bredemeier KE. Attention and executive functioning deficits associated with dimensions of anxiety and depression [PhD thesis]. [Urbana, United States]: Department of Psychology: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2012. [Link]

40. Bonanno GA, Mancini AD. The human capacity to thrive in the face of potential trauma. Pediatrics. 2008; 121(2): 369-375. [Link] [DOI:10.1542/peds.2007-1648]

41. Fan F, Zou Y, Zhang Y, Ma X, Zhang J, Liu C, et al. The relationship between maternal anxiety and cortisol during pregnancy and birth weight of Chinese neonates. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2018; 18(1): 265. [Link] [DOI:10.1186/s12884-018-1798-x]

42. Daniel M-F, Pettier J-C, Auriac-Slusarczyk E. The incidence of Philosophy on Discursive and Language. Competence on Four-Year-Old Pupils. Creat Educ. 2011; 2(3): 296-304. [Link] [DOI:10.4236/ce.2011.23041]

43. Higashionna T, Iwanaga R, Tokunaga A, Nakai A, Tanaka K, Nakane H, et al. Relationship between motor coordination, cognitive abilities, and academic achievement in Japanese children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Hong Kong J Occup Ther. 2017; 30: 49-55. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/j.hkjot.2017.10.002]

44. Kamijo K, Hayashi Y, Sakai T, Yahiro T, Tanaka K, Nishihira Y. Acute effects of aerobic exercise on cognitive function in older adults. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2009; 64(3): 356-363. [Link] [DOI:10.1093/geronb/gbp030]

45. Dehghani M, Karimei N, Tagipour javan AA, Hasan Nattaj Jelodar F, Pakizeh A. The effectiveness of rhythmic movement games (weighted) on the rate of executive function in children with neuropsychological learning disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities. 2012; 2(1): 53-77. [Persian]. [Link]

46. Bishop DVM, Nation K, Patterson K. When words fail us: insights into language processing from developmental and acquired disorders. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2014; 369(1634): 20120403. [Link] [DOI:10.1098/rstb.2012.0403]

47. Gooch D, Hulme C, Nash HM, Snowling MJ. Comorbidities in preschool children at family risk of dyslexia. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2014; 55(3): 237-246. [Link] [DOI:10.1111/jcpp.12139]

48. Brace JJ, Morton JB, Munakata Y. When actions speak louder than words: improving children's flexibility in a card-sorting task. Psychol Sci. 2006; 17(8): 665-669. [Link] [DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01763.x]

49. Kuhn LJ, Willoughby MT, Wilbourn MP, Vernon-Feagans L, Blair CB, Family Life Project Key Investigators. Early communicative gestures prospectively predict language development and executive function in early childhood. Child Dev. 2014; 85(5): 1898-1914. [Link] [DOI:10.1111/cdev.12249]

50. Hoseini S, Toozandehjani H. Investigating the relationship between attachment styles and the manner of mobile phone usage among Iranian Students. Social Networking. 2017; 6(2): 206-214. [Link] [DOI:10.4236/sn.2017.62013]

51. Carlson SM, White RE, Davis-Unger A. Evidence for a relation between executive function and pretense representation in preschool children. Cogn Dev. 2014; 29: 1-16. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/j.cogdev.2013.09.001]

52. Bernier A, Carlson SM, Deschênes M, Matte-Gagné C. Social factors in the development of early executive functioning: a closer look at the caregiving environment. Dev Sci. 2012; 15(1): 12-24. [Link] [DOI:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01093.x]

53. Piotrowski JT, Lapierre MA, Linebarger DL. Investigating correlates of self-regulation in early childhood with a representative sample of English-Speaking American families. J Child Fam Stud. 2013; 22(3): 423-436. [Link] [DOI:10.1007/s10826-012-9595-z]

54. Bernier A, Beauchamp MH, Carlson SM, Lalonde G. A secure base from which to regulate: Attachment security in toddlerhood as a predictor of executive functioning at school entry. Dev Psychol. 2015; 51(9): 1177-1189. [Link] [DOI:10.1037/dev0000032]

55. Halimi Asl AA, Safari S, Parvareshi Hamrah M. Epidemiology and related risk factors of preterm labor as an obstetrics emergency. Emerg (Tehran). 2017; 5(1): e3. [Link]

56. Ballot DE, Potterton J, Chirwa T, Hilburn N, Cooper PA. Developmental outcome of very low birth weight infants in a developing country. BMC Pediatr. 2012; 12(1): 11. [Link] [DOI:10.1186/1471-2431-12-11]

57. Farooqi A, Adamsson M, Serenius F, Hägglöf B. Executive functioning and learning skills of adolescent children born at fewer than 26 weeks of gestation. PLoS ONE. 2016; 11(3): e0151819. [Link] [DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0151819]

58. Taylor HG, Clark CAC. Executive function in children born preterm: Risk factors and implications for outcome. Semin Perinatol. 2016; 40(8): 520-529. [Link] [DOI:10.1053/j.semperi.2016.09.004]

59. Volpe JJ. Brain injury in premature infants: a complex amalgam of destructive and developmental disturbances. Lancet Neurol. 2009; 8(1): 110-124. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/S1474-4422(08)70294-1]

60. Woodward LJ, Edgin JO, Thompson D, Inder TE. Object working memory deficits predicted by early brain injury and development in the preterm infant. Brain. 2005; 128(Pt 11): 2578-2587. [Link] [DOI:10.1093/brain/awh618]

61. Reichle B, Franiek S. Erziehungsstil aus elternsicht - deutsche erweiterte version des alabama parenting questionnaire für grundschulkinder. Entwicklungspsychol. Z Entwicklungspsychol Padagog Psychol. 2009; 41(1): 12-25. [Link] [DOI:10.1026/0049-8637.41.1.12]

62. Kung C-H, Lee S-Y, Chang Y-H, Wu JY-W, Chen S-L, Chen S-H, et al. Poorer sustained attention in bipolar I than bipolar II disorder. Ann Gen Psychiatry. 2010; 9(1): 8. [Link] [DOI:10.1186/1744-859X-9-8]

63. Golubović Š, Maksimović J, Golubović B, Glumbić N. Effects of exercise on physical fitness in children with intellectual disability. Res Dev Disabil. 2012; 33(2): 608-614. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/j.ridd.2011.11.003]

64. Bernard K, Dozier M. Examining infants' cortisol responses to laboratory tasks among children varying in attachment disorganization: stress reactivity or return to baseline? Dev Psychol. 2010; 46(6): 1771-1778. [Link] [DOI:10.1037/a0020660]

65. Berry D, Blair C, Willoughby M, Granger DA, Family Life Project Key Investigators. Salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol in infancy and toddlerhood: direct and indirect relations with executive functioning and academic ability in childhood. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2012; 37(10): 1700-1711. [Link] [DOI:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.03.002]

66. Calkins SD. Caregiving as coregulation: psychobiological processes and child functioning. In: Booth A, McHale SM, Landale NS, editors. Biosocial foundations of family processes. New York, NY: Springer; 2011, pp: 49-59. [Link] [DOI:10.1007/978-1-4419-7361-0_3]

67. Rose SA, Feldman JF, Jankowski JJ. Modeling a cascade of effects: the role of speed and executive functioning in preterm/full-term differences in academic achievement. Dev Sci. 2011; 14(5): 1161-1175. [Link] [DOI:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01068.x]