It is controversial whether different cognitive functions can be mapped to discrete regions of
the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The localisationist tradition has associated one cognitive …

Rostral prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a large brain region, and is unusually large in humans.
Therefore, it seems likely that it might support functions that are central to cognition …

This study used data from 220 adults to examine the relations among 3 inhibition-related
functions. Confirmatory factor analysis suggested that Prepotent Response Inhibition and …

Although this is a time of unprecedented progress in cognitive neuroscience, clinicians who
evaluate and treat frontal lobe dysfunction still face many of the frustrations encountered by …

Negative Priming (NP) is an influential paradigm in cognitive psychology that was originally
developed to measure attentional selection. Yet, up to the mid-1990s, a large number of …

This study examined the performance of 38 normal subjects and 43 patients with focal
lesions of the frontal lobes on a simple go–nogo task where the probability of the nogo …

Over the last decade, the topic of prospective memory the encoding, storage and delayed
retrieval of intended actions has attracted much interest, and this is reflected in a rapidly …

Priming effects of ignored distractor words were investigated in a task-switching situation
that allowed an orthogonal variation of priming and response compatibility between prime …

Executive Functioning: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practice is the first book to offer
an in-depth, comprehensive, and clinically applicable analysis of executive functioning (EF) …

One of the major accounts of cognitive aging states that age effects are related to a
deficiency of inhibitory mechanisms. Given that inhibition has traditionally been associated …