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Investigating the impact of nicotine on executive functions using a novel virtual reality assessment [PDF]
, 2012 Aims Nicotine is known to enhance aspects of cognitive functioning in abstinent smokers but the effects on specific areas of executive functions, and in non-smokers are inconclusive. This may be due in part to the poor sensitivity of tests used to assess
Jansari, A.S. +10 more
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Comparison of objective and subjective executive functions of chronic kidney dialysis patients and normal people [PDF]
مجله علوم روانشناختی, 2023 Background: Chronic kidney disease is one of the widespread public health problems. This disease is associated with extensive cognitive deficits, among which visual attention, psychomotor speed and executive function can be mentioned.
Malek Bastami katuli +4 more
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Executive functions in the context of complex learning: Malleable moderators?
Frontline Learning Research, 2017 Executive functions are crucial for complex learning in addition to prior knowledge. In this article, we argue that executive functions can moderate the effectiveness of instructional approaches that vary with respect to the demand on these functions. In
Matthias Schwaighofer +2 more
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Executive functions and their disorders [PDF]
British Medical Bulletin, 2003 The term executive function defines complex cognitive processing requiring the co-ordination of several subprocesses to achieve a particular goal. Neuropsychological evidence suggests that executive processing is intimately connected with the intact function of the frontal cortices.
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The Assessment of Executive Functioning in Children [PDF]
Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2010 Background: Executive functioning is increasingly seen as incorporating several component sub‐skills and clinical assessments should reflect this complexity. Method: Tools for assessing executive functioning in children are reviewed ...
Henry, L., Bettenay, C.
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Executive functions in anorexia nervosa
Nutrición Hospitalaria, 2014 Introduction: The pathophysiologic mechanisms that account for the development and persistence of anorexia nervosa (AN) remain unclear. With respect to the neuropsychological functioning, the executive functions have been reported to be altered ...
Ignacio Jauregui-Lobera
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Imaging the genetics of executive function [PDF]
Biological Psychology, 2008 Recent advances in neuroimaging technologies have allowed ever more detailed studies of the human brain. The combination of neuroimaging techniques with genetics may provide a more sensitive measure of the influence of genetic variants on cognitive function than behavioural measures alone.
Greene, C. M. +3 more
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Differential contributions of set-shifting and monitoring to dual-task interference [PDF]
, 2012 It is commonly argued that complex behaviour is regulated by a number of “executive functions” which work to co-ordinate the operation of disparate cognitive systems in the service of an overall goal.
Davelaar, Eddy J. +2 more
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Neuroscience ResearchFor animals, including humans, to have self-awareness, the ability to reflect on one's own perceptions and cognitions, which is known as metacognition, and an understanding of consistency of the self from the past to the present and into the future based
Kentaro Miyamoto
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Patterning, Reading, and Executive Functions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Detecting a pattern within a sequence of ordered units, defined as patterning, is a cognitive ability that is important in learning mathematics and influential in learning to read.
Allison M. Bock +8 more
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