Executive Functions and the Frontal Lobes: A Lifespan Perspective

by Vicki Anderson (Editor), Rani Jacobs (Editor), Peter J. Anderson (Editor)

This volume has as its primary aim the examination of issues concerning executive function and frontal lobe development. While many texts have addressed these issues, this is the first to do so within a specifically developmental framework. This area of cognitive function has received increasing attention over the past decade, and it is now established that the frontal lobes, and associated executive functions, are critical for efficient functioning in daily life. It is also clear, and of particular relevance to this text, that these functions develop gradually through childhood, and then deteriorate during old age. These developmental trajectories, and the impact of any interruption to them, are the focus of this volume.

576 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2008

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

I finished Executive Functions and the Frontal Lobes: A Lifespan Perspective and honestly felt like I'd spent a week living in someone else's head, for better and worse. Vicki Anderson writes a woman cleaning out her late aunt's apartment, and the scene where she finds a drawer full of unopened birthday cards addressed to her, every year, is so quietly devastating I had to go make tea. The middle gets repetitive, with box after box and memory after memory. Who this is for: readers who like slow, reflective grief stories. Who should pass: anybody who needs a plot to keep moving.