InBrief: Fonction Exécutive
Being able to focus, hold, and work with information in mind, filter distractions, and switch gears is like having an air traffic control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways. In the brain, this air traffic control mechanism is called executive functioning, a group […]
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InBrief: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning (Japanese)
Being able to focus, hold, and work with information in mind, filter distractions, and switch gears is like having an air traffic control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways. In the brain, this air traffic control mechanism is called executive functioning, a group of […]
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Mejora y Práctica de las Habilidades de Función Ejecutiva con Niños desde la Infancia Hasta la Adolescencia
Las habilidades de función ejecutiva y de autorregulación proporcionan un apoyo decisivo para el aprendizaje y el desarrollo. Al igual que un sistema de control del tránsito aéreo en un aeropuerto concurrido gestiona las llegadas y los despegues de muchos aviones en diversas pistas, las habilidades de función ejecutiva nos permiten retener y trabajar con […]
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InBrief: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning (Norwegian subtitles)
This edition of the InBrief series, here subtitled in Norwegian, explains how lifelong executive function skills develop, what can disrupt their development, and how supporting them pays off in school and life. The Norwegian subtitles for this video have been generously provided by RVTS Sør.
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Brain Hero (Japanese)
This 3-minute video, here in Japanese, adapts the visual sensibility of interactive game models to a video format. Based loosely on such games as “Guitar Hero,” “SimCity,” and “The Game of Life,” the video portrays how actions taken by parents, teachers, policymakers, and others can affect life outcomes for both the child and the surrounding community.
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Serve and Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry (Japanese)
This 2-minute video, here in Japanese, explains why “serve and return” interaction between children and significant adults in their lives is one of the most essential experiences in shaping the architecture of the developing brain.
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How Children and Adults Can Build Core Capabilities for Life (Japanese)
This video, here in Japanese, looks at how we take on the ordinary, sometimes challenging, tasks of work, school, parenting, relationships, and just managing our busy lives. How do we navigate these tasks successfully? And what can send us off course? Science offers an explanation.
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InBrief: The Science of Early Childhood Development (Japanese)
This video from the InBrief series, here in Japanese, addresses basic concepts of early childhood development, established over decades of neuroscience and behavioral research.
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3 Princípios para Obter Resultados Melhores para as Crianças e as Famílias
A ciência relacionada ao desenvolvimento infantil e às competências essenciais dos adultos apontam para um conjunto de “princípios de design” que os formuladores de políticas e profissionais de muitos setores diferentes podem usar para melhorar os resultados para as crianças e as famílias. This translation was generously provided by Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal.
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Fonction Exécutive Guide d’Activités
Executive function and self-regulation (EF/SR) skills provide critical supports for learning and development, and while we aren’t born with these skills, we are born with the potential to develop them through interactions and practice. This 16-page guide (available for download, below), describes a variety of activities and games that represent age-appropriate ways for adults to […]
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En Breve: La Ciencia del Desarrollo Infantil Temprano
This video and brief, translated into Spanish, address basic concepts of early childhood development and help illustrate why child development—particularly from birth to five years—is a foundation for a prosperous and sustainable society.
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Activities Guide: Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence (Arabic translation)
Executive function and self-regulation (EF/SR) skills provide critical supports for learning and development, and while we aren’t born with these skills, we are born with the potential to develop them through interactions and practice. This 16-page guide (available for download, below), describes a variety of activities and games that represent age-appropriate ways for adults to […]
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Das Melhores Práticas aos Impactos Transformadores
A primeira infãncia é um período de grandes promessas e rápidas mudanças, quando a arquitetura do cérebro em desenvolvimento é mais aberta às in uências dos relacionamentos e das experiências.
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Construindo o sistema de “Controle de Tráfego Aéreo” do cérebro: Como as primeiras experiências moldam o desenvolvimento das funções executivas
Ter função executiva no cérebro é como ter um sistema de controle de tráfego aéreo em um aeroporto movimentado para gerenciar as chegadas e partidas de dezenas de aviões em várias pistas.
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Resumo: Função Executiva: Habilidades Para a Vida e Aprendizagem
Pesquisas sobre o cérebro em desenvolvimento mostram que experiências da primeira infância constroem as bases para uma força de trabalho capacitada, uma comunidade responsável e uma economia próspera.
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En Breve: La Función Ejecutiva — Habilidades para la vida y el aprendizaje
La investigación sobre el cerebro en desarrollo demuestra que las experiencias en la infancia temprana construyen los cimientos de una fuerza de trabajo calificada, de una comunidad responsable y de una economía dinámica.
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Tres Conceptos Clave del Desarrollo Infantil Temprano
Subtitled in Spanish, this three-part video series, titled Three Core Concepts in Early Development, from the Center and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child depicts how advances in neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics now give us a much better understanding of how early experiences are built into our bodies and brains, for better or for worse.
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Super-Cérebro
Super-Cérebro is the Portuguese translation of Brain Hero, a three-minute video depicting how actions by a range of people in the family and community can affect a child’s development.
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Super Cerebro
Super Cerebro is a three-minute video depicting how actions by a range of people in the family and community can affect a child’s development. This is the Spanish translation of Brain Hero.
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En Breve: La Función Ejecutiva — Habilidades para la vida y el aprendizaje
This video and brief from the InBrief series, provided in Spanish, explain how lifelong executive function skills develop, what can disrupt their development, and how supporting them pays off in school and life.