Sabine Doebel: How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it
Sabine Doebel: Jak działają funkcje wykonawcze i jak je poprawić?
Sabine Doebel studies the developing mind to understand how experience shapes our thinking and executive control skills. Full bio
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when you first learned how to drive?
była bardzo przemyślana.
was so conscious and deliberate?
completely wiped out mentally.
I know that this is because I was using
że działo się tak,
called executive function.
to consciously control our thoughts,
to break away from habit,
when things go wrong.
kiedy coś pójdzie nie tak.
poured orange juice on your cereal?
sokiem pomarańczowym?
you've missed a meeting?
on the way home from work
jak zwykle, do domu?
instead on autopilot?
zaburzenia funkcji wykonawczych.
in executive function.
i w każdym aspekcie życia.
every day in all aspects of our lives.
że wpływają one na same dobre rzeczy
that it predicts all kinds of good things
osiągnięcia naukowe
mental and physical health,
are so interested in understanding it
a huge self-improvement buzzword.
stały się modnym zagadnieniem.
dzięki aplikacjom trenującym mózg,
through brain-training iPhone apps
na przykład dzięki grze w szachy.
like playing chess.
to train it in the lab
funkcje wykonawcze w laboratoriach,
and other things related to it,
jest jednak błędne.
about executive function is all wrong.
executive function in a broad sense
w szerokim zakresie,
exercising it in a narrow way,
in which we actually use it.
ćwiczących funkcje wykonawcze,
function app on your phone,
zalać cheeriosy sokiem pomarańczowym.
pouring OJ on your Cheeerios twice a week.
your executive function
jak wpływa na nie kontekst.
how it's influenced by context.
that we use in the lab
u małych dzieci,
in young children
cards in one way --
keep sorting the cards in the old way
sortują karty starym sposobem,
jak mają to robić.
them of what they should be doing.
If it's red, put it here.
a tam - czerwoną.
a different game.
the color game anymore.
a tam - ciężarówki.
and all the trucks go here, OK?
jej funkcje wykonawcze.
to use her executive function.
i innymi do niego podobnymi,
and others like it
jej funkcje wykonawcze poza laboratorium?
her executive function outside of the lab?
she'll need to use executive function
musiałaby używać tych funkcji
na zmianę według koloru lub kształtu.
between shape and color.
from adding to multiplying
od dodawania do mnożenia,
to thinking about her friend.
do myślenia o przyjacielu.
depends on things
i tego, co robią rówieśnicy.
and what your peers are doing.
on the strategies that you execute
w konkretnych sytuacjach.
in a particular situation.
that context really matters.
from my research.
to do the classic marshmallow test,
żeby zrobiły test pianki marshmallow,
of delay of gratification
a lot of executive function.
jedną piankę marshmallow
do drugiego pokoju po więcej,
to go to the other room
that second marshmallow,
How long can they wait?
to look at the effects of context.
żeby przyjrzeć się kontekstowi.
a green T-shirt to wear.
waited for two marshmallows,
zaczekała na drugą piankę,
na drugą piankę,
for two marshmallows
to see how long they waited.
jak długo poczeka.
for two marshmallows
that they'd never even met.
których nigdy nawet nie spotkały.
I still didn't know
czy stało za tym coś więcej.
or if it was something deeper than that.
zdjęcia innych dzieci,
I showed them pictures of pairs of kids,
rzeczy od razu,
likes to have things right away,
more of these things."
do you like more
who believed that their group waited
że ich grupa czekała,
who liked to wait for things.
made them value waiting more.
pomogła im docenić czekanie.
pomocnych w czekaniu,
to help themselves wait,
or turning away from the marshmallow
odwracanie się od pianki
is just how much context matters.
had good executive function or bad,
funkcji wykonawczych,
helped them use it better.
for you and for your kids?
to learn Spanish.
języka hiszpańskiego.
którzy też chcą się go nauczyć.
with other people who also want to learn,
that you really like.
to use executive function.
do używania funkcji wykonawczych.
your child do better on her math homework.
odrobić pracę domową z matematyki.
to use executive function
odpowiedniego użycia funkcji wykonawczych
before she starts studying
zanim zacznie się uczyć
after studying for an hour.
like context is everything.
że kontekst jest najważniejszy.
and it's shaped by numerous factors.
i wieloczynnikowe.
your executive function
żeby cele były dla was ważniejsze,
your goals matter more to you,
in that particular situation.
when they said, "Know thyself."
którzy mówili: "Poznaj siebie".
how context shapes your behavior
jak kontekst wpływa na zachowanie
to change for the better.
żeby zmienić się na lepsze.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sabine Doebel - Cognitive scientistSabine Doebel studies the developing mind to understand how experience shapes our thinking and executive control skills.
Why you should listen
Sabine Doebel conducts research with children in an effort to understand the nature of the mind, with much of her work focusing on how children develop the cognitive abilities that serve us so well as adults, like controlling impulses, thinking ahead, and staying on task.
Doebel is an incoming assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where she will direct the brand new Developing Minds Lab. She earned her PhD from the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota and subsequently was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and published in Psychological Science, Cognition, Developmental Psychology and Child Development. A full list of her publications can be found here.
Doebel is also a passionate advocate of open science and has received funding from the National Science Foundation to help developmental scientists adopt transparency-enhancing practices that will allow them to build more easily on each other's work.
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