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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

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  • Executive functions, including inhibition, working memory, and flexibility, are crucial for developing high intellectual capacity.
  • Understanding these functions is key to optimizing the potential of gifted and talented individuals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the executive functioning differences between profiles of high intellectual capacity: giftedness, convergent talent, and divergent talent.
  • To determine how specific executive functions relate to distinct intellectual profiles in children aged 8-15.

Main Methods:

  • Study involved 78 children (aged 8-15) categorized into giftedness, convergent talent, or divergent talent profiles.
  • Assessed executive functions using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Corsi Test, and Go-No Go Test.
  • Analyzed data using multivariate analysis of variance to compare executive function across intellectual profiles.

Main Results:

  • Significant differences were found in flexibility and inhibition between the studied profiles.
  • No significant differences in working memory were observed across giftedness and talent profiles.
  • The giftedness profile demonstrated superior flexibility and inhibition compared to talent profiles.

Conclusions:

  • Working memory is comparable across giftedness and talent profiles.
  • Gifted individuals exhibit enhanced executive functioning, particularly in flexibility and inhibition, over talented individuals, especially those with convergent talent.
  • These findings highlight distinct executive function profiles within high intellectual capacity groups.