Executive functions (EFs) make possible mentally playing with ideas; taking the time to think
before acting; meeting novel, unanticipated challenges; resisting temptations; and staying …

Abstract The 'Executive Functions'(EFs) of inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive
flexibility enable us to think before we act, resist temptations or impulsive reactions, stay …

Executive functions (EFs; which make possible mentally playing with ideas, giving the
considered rather than impulsive response, resisting temptations, staying focused, problem …

Executive function (EF) refers to the set of neurocognitive skills involved in goal-directed
problem solving, including working memory, inhibitory control, and set shifting/flexibility. EF …

Executive Function: Development Across the Life Span presents perspectives from leading
researchers and theorists on the development of executive function from infancy to late …

Executive function (EF), which refers to the more deliberate, top‐down neurocognitive
processes involved in self‐regulation, develops most rapidly during the preschool years …

A primary aim of the neuropsychological revolution has been the mapping of what has come
to be known as executive function (EF). This term encompasses a range of mental …

In 1848, while working with Phineas Gage, a young man who miraculously survived a
severe injury to his brain, physician John Martyn Harlow observed that Gage had lost the …

Executive function (EF) has been defined as a multifaceted construct that involves a variety
of high-level cognitive abilities (De Frias, Dixon, & Strauss, 2006). For most of the last …

This chapter discusses the early development of executive function, also called cognitive
control; effortful, conscious, or executive control; or supervisory attention. Executive function …