Whereas a wealth of studies have investigated acute effects of moderate aerobic exercise
on executive function, the roles of age, fitness, and the component of executive function in …

Cognitive control, the ability to voluntarily guide our behavior, continues to improve
throughout adolescence. Below we review the literature on age-related changes in brain …

Executive functions demonstrate variable developmental and aging profiles, with protracted
development into early adulthood and declines in older age. However, relatively few studies …

To be successful in school or in one's career takes creativity, flexibility, self-control, and
discipline. Central to all those are executive functions (EFs), including mentally playing with …

Aging has been assumed to go along with deficient inhibitory processes in cognitive
performance. According to this inhibition deficit hypothesis, older adults are less able to …

White matter (WM) continues to mature through adolescence in parallel with gains in
cognitive ability. To date, developmental changes in human WM microstructure have been …

Response inhibition is an important act of control in many domains of psychology and
neuroscience. It is often studied in a stop-signal task that requires subjects to inhibit an …

This study examined the developmental trajectories of three frequently postulated executive
function (EF) components, Working Memory, Shifting, and Inhibition of responses, and their …

Although executive functions can be improved by training, little is known about the extent to
which these training‐related benefits can be transferred to other tasks, or whether this …

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number
of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past …