Hi You might want to look at inhibition models that posit increasing strength of inhibitory functioning during childhood (and often reverse during aging). It can be nicely related to performance on variety of tasks (e.g., stroop, Simon Says, ...), as well as to more physiological measures (e.g., incidence of seizures, work on correlation between brain activity for patterned and non-patterned stimuli by ??? [I don't have access to materials right now], ...). It also provides a nice explanation for some existing accounts (e.g., reversibility and other Piagetian constructs can be translated into inhibitory processes, Freud's notion of primitive id functioning, ...). I cite some sources in a paper in the early to mid 1990s in a special issue of Brain and Cognition. I'm away from the university until Sept, but will see what I have with me. If you follow this up, I'd also be interested in other things you find.
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