Inhibition and Mathematical Performance: Poorly Correlated, Poorly Measured, or Poorly Matched?
Inhibition and Mathematical Performance: Poorly Correlated, Poorly Measured, or Poorly Matched?
Abstract Inhibition is an important aspect of executive functioning (EF) that refers to a cognitive mechanism that blocks or suppresses irrelevant stimuli, memory, habitual responses, or automatized processes from interrupting the desired response. Researchers have found weak and inconsistent relations between inhibitory abilities and mathematics performance (Bull & Lee, 2014). …