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Annual Review of Psychology, 2013 Executive functions (EFs) make possible mentally playing with ideas; taking the time to think before acting; meeting novel, unanticipated challenges; resisting temptations; and staying focused.
Adele Diamond
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Executive Functions in Alzheimer Disease: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2019 Alzheimer's disease is a severe irreversible syndrome, characterized by a slow and progressive cognitive decline that interferes with the standard instrumental and essential functions of daily life.
Angela Guarino +5 more
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Executive Functions in Developmental Dyslexia [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 The present study was aimed at investigating different aspects of Executive Functions (EF) in children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD).A neuropsychological battery tapping verbal fluency, spoonerism, attention, verbal shifting, short-term and working ...
Pamela eVarvara +5 more
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The volitive and the executive function of intentions [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2012 Many philosophers of action conceive intentions functionally, as executive states: intentions are mental states that represent an action and tend to cause this action. In the philosophical tradition another function of intentions, which may be called "volitive", played a much more prominent role: intentions are mental states that represent what kind of
Lumer, Christoph
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Executive functions and aging [PDF]
CoDAS, 2016 Executive functions (EF) may be explained as the ability to plan, organize and perform intentional behavior. They refer to high level cognitive processes associated to working memory, sustained attention, dominant responses inhibition, planning and monitoring performance and activities, objective maintenance, objective and task initiation and cognitive
Ana Paula Machado Goyano Mac Kay
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Executive Functioning in Schizophrenia [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2013 The executive function (EF) is a set of abilities, which allows us to invoke voluntary control of our behavioral responses. These functions enable human beings to develop and carry out plans, make up analogies, obey social rules, solve problems, adapt to unexpected circumstances, do many tasks simultaneously, and locate episodes in time and place.
Gricel eOrellana +5 more
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Executive Functions in Parkinson’s Disease
Psico-USF, 2021 The objective of this study was to investigate executive functions (EFs) in older adults with Parkinson’s disease (PD). It was a cross-sectional and comparative study, composed of 62 participants divided into PD group (n = 31; M age = 75.26; SD age = 7.
Tainá Rossi +7 more
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Training Executive Functions to Improve Academic Achievement: Tackling Avenues to Far Transfer
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The aim of training executive functions is usually to improve the ability to attain real-life goals such as academic achievement, that is, far transfer.
Catherine Gunzenhauser +1 more
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How executive functions contribute to reading comprehension
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020 Background Executive functions have been proposed to account for individual variation in reading comprehension beyond the contributions of decoding skills and language skills.
S. Nouwens +3 more
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Childhood rituals and executive functions [PDF]
, 2009 Repetitive and ritualistic behaviours (RRBs) are a feature of both typical and atypical development. While the cognitive correlates of these behaviours have been investigated in some neurodevelopmental conditions these links remain largely unexplored in ...
Charman, Tony +2 more
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