Psychological Development and Education ›› 2005, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (1): 21-25.

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Development of “Hot” Executivc Function through Children’s Gambling Task

LI Hong, GAO Shan, BAI Jun-jie   

  1. School of Psychology, Southwest China Normal University, Key Laboratory of Basic Psychology of Chongqing, Beibei Chongqing 400715
  • Online:2005-01-15 Published:2005-01-15

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Abstract: Affective decision-making was studied in 60 children at 2 ages (3 and 4 years) using the Children's Gambling Task,to examine the development of hot executive function.Results showed a significant age difference between 3-and 4-year-olds.Scores increased across blocks for 4-year-olds,and 4-year-olds made more advantageous choices than 3-year-olds on three blocks,especially the last two blocks.This indicated that affective decision 2 making develops rapidly between 3 and 4 years.On the other hand,a lot of variability in children's performance on this task migh have obscured sex effects.Therefore,sex difference was not statistically significant,though boys did better than girls on the last two blocks.

Key words: executive function, hot executive function, cool executive function, affective decision-making, orbitofrontal cortex (OFC)

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  • B844.1
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