Authors
Rachel C Tomlinson, Alexander S Weigard, Chandra Sripada, John Jonides, Kelly L Klump, S Alexandra Burt, Luke W Hyde
Published in
Journal of psychopathology and clinical science. Aug 21, 2025. Epub Aug 21, 2025.
Abstract
Difficulties with executive functioning are implicated in various forms of psychopathology. However, executive functioning task performance frequently demonstrates poor test-retest reliability, questionable convergent validity, and unstable associations with clinical measures. Model-based approaches may improve measurement by providing richer information about mechanisms underlying performance. The present study systematically compared a model-based measure of task-general executive functioning, efficiency of evidence accumulation (EEA), with traditional summary metrics extracted from the same tasks in a longitudinal study of adolescents (N = 637, age = 7-19). EEA demonstrated reasonable stability across development and strong cross-task reliability. Reflecting traditional metrics, EEA related to self-reported effortful control and parent-reported attention, externalizing and total problems. EEA and one traditional metric (go/no-go standard deviation of reaction time) correlated with inhibition-related brain activation in the anterior cingulate cortex and the right superior temporal gyrus. These findings highlight the potential of EEA as a task-general, stable, biologically plausible measure of executive functioning in adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
PMID:
40839478
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