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Working Memory Model

Researchers have found significant results from biofeedback-enhanced relaxation on memory and inhibition in children. Biofeedback is a mind-body tool where people can learn to control and regulate their body to improve and control their executive functioning skills. To measure one's processes researchers, use their heart rate and or respiratory rates. Biofeedback-relaxation includes music therapy, art, and other mindfulness activities.

Executive functioning skills are important for various reasons, for example, this includes academic success and the social emotional development of a child. According to the study “The Efficacy of Different Interventions to Foster Children’s Executive Function Skills: A Series of Meta-Analyses”, researchers found that it is possible to train executive function skills. Researchers conducted a study using a meta-analysis of prior studies in order to find the effectiveness of different interventions that promote the development of executive functioning skills in children. The interventions included computerized and non-computerized training, physical exercise, art, and mindfulness exercises. However, researchers could not conclude that art activities or physical activities could improve executive functioning skills.

Self-regulatory Model

Teaching children self-regulation strategies is a way to improve their inhibitory control and their cognitive flexibility. By learning these skills children can use these strategies to manage their emotional responses. These interventions include, teaching children executive function related skills which provide the steps necessary to implement them during classroom activities, and educating children on how to plan their actions before acting upon them. Executive function skills are how the brain plans and reacts to situations. Offering new self-regulation strategies allow children to improve their executive functioning skills by practicing something new. It is also concluded that mindfulness practices are shown to be a significantly effective intervention for children to self-regulate. This includes biofeedback-enhanced relaxation. These strategies support the growth of children’s executive functioning skills.