The ABCD study is recruiting and following the brain development and health of over 10,000
9–10 year olds through adolescence. The imaging component of the study was developed …

In many circumstances alternative courses of action and thoughts have to be inhibited to
allow the emergence of goal-directed behavior. However, this has not been the accepted …

Abstract The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is an ongoing,
nationwide study of the effects of environmental influences on behavioral and brain …

We demonstrate through theoretical, empirical, and sociocultural evidence that the concept
of impulsivity fails the basic requirements of a psychological construct and should be …

Inhibition is often conceptualized as a unitary construct reflecting the ability to ignore and
suppress irrelevant information. At the same time, it has been subdivided into inhibition of …

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 …

Can growing up in a stressful childhood environment enhance certain cognitive functions?
Drawing participants from higher-income and lower-income backgrounds, we tested how …

Since the dawn of cognitive neuroscience, emotions have been recognized to impact on
several executive processes, such as action inhibition. However, the complex interplay …

Adolescence is characterized by making risky decisions. Early lesion and neuroimaging
studies in adults pointed to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and related structures as …

Our goal in this paper is to understand the extent to which, and under what conditions,
executive functions (EFs) play a role in reading comprehension processes. We begin with a …