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Objectives: A. Understand that EFs differentiate early in life and are evident in child behaviour. B. Appreciate that new measurement tools and a surge of research during the 1990s began improving our understanding of how EFs develop and prepare children for school. At age 6, most children are still mustering full attention to tie their shoelaces. But only a few years later, many of them will be able to tie a shoe while balancing on the other leg and maintaining eye contact a

Natural behaviour frequently involves the need to look for task-relevant information. The function of attention is to facilitate this process by enhancing sensory signals from objects that match our goals. Objects that are selected are more likely to enter into conscious awareness, be remembered, and be acted upon. – Yu et al., 2023 Objectives: A. Learn how animals purposefully apply rhythmic motor movements to detect and track biologically relevant sensory rhythms. B. Apply

[The third in a series of 3 posts re sensory integration, from my book Ready to Learn. ] Objectives: A. Understand that during development, sensory dominance can persist in guiding task-related behavioural responses but that sensory systems are continually calibrating one another. B. Understand that with typical experience, children gradually learn to integrate suitable/available sensory inputs to optimize task responses with adult level proficiency. C. Appreciate that sensor