Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (FORLILPSI), University of Florence Firenze FI, Italy.
Department of Psychology, University for Business and Technology, Prishta, Kosovo.
Child Neuropsychol. 2024 Feb;30(1):105-163. doi: 10.1080/09297049.2023.2170998. Epub 2023 Feb 7.
Writing is a complex task that is acquired in the early primary school years and continues to develop through adolescence and beyond. Studying the cognitive processes that support writing skills during the acquisition phase may be crucial to support this complex skill especially in less-skilled writers. Executive Functions (EF) could have an important role as they are high cognitive control processes that allow individuals to control and plan thoughts and actions in order to achieve a goal. Given that EF have a crucial development during childhood, when the basic writing skills are acquired, this systematic review aims to investigate the contribution of the main EF components to the writing process in children. Search string focused on three main concepts: executive functions, writing, and children. Twenty-six studies were included following the guidelines of the PRISMA Statement. From the analyzed studies, working memory, in comparison to inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and planning, emerged as the most studied and the most related to writing skills. Nevertheless, the results also support the involvement of all EF basic components in writing, with a role that could vary depending on the considered writing process.0.
写作是一项复杂的任务，在小学早期习得，并在青少年时期及以后继续发展。研究支持写作技能习得阶段的认知过程对于支持这项复杂技能至关重要，特别是对于写作能力较低的人。执行功能（EF）可能具有重要作用，因为它们是高级认知控制过程，使个体能够控制和规划思想和行动，以实现目标。鉴于 EF 在儿童时期（基本写作技能习得时期）的发展至关重要，本系统综述旨在调查主要 EF 成分对儿童写作过程的贡献。搜索词集中在三个主要概念：执行功能、写作和儿童。根据 PRISMA 声明的指南，共纳入了 26 项研究。从分析的研究中可以看出，与抑制、认知灵活性和计划相比，工作记忆是研究最多、与写作技能最相关的。然而，研究结果也支持所有 EF 基本成分都参与到写作中，其作用可能取决于所考虑的写作过程。
