This article provides an overview of recent research on human planning and problem
solving. As an introduction, these two cognitive domains will be described and discussed …

In the previous 15 years, a variety of experimental paradigms and methods have been
employed to study inhibition. In the current review, we analyze studies that have used the …

Whether the format of a recognition memory task influences the contribution of recollection
and familiarity to performance is a matter of debate. The authors investigated this issue by …

Many features of aging suggest dysfunction in both frontal and subcortical regions.
Connections between the two areas form a series of pathways that critically influence …

For historical reasons (Bianchi, 1895; Harlow, 1968; Luria, 1966; Shallice, 1982), a specific
link between the central executive of working memory and the frontal cortex was originally …

The authors examined the factor structure of 4 indicators of executive functioning derived
from 2 new (ie, Hayling and Brixton) and 2 traditional (ie, Stroop and Color Trails) tests. Data …

The goal of this study was to assess inhibition and goal maintenance in persons with
Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, healthy older adults and younger adults …

A particularly important aspect of executive functioning involves the ability to form and carry
out complex plans, that is to say planning. This study aimed to investigate planning in 18 …

This investigation represents a multimodal study of age-related differences in experienced
and expressed affect and in emotion regulatory skills in a sample of young, middle-aged …

Background Many studies have shown that recently detoxified alcoholic persons perform
poorly on tasks thought to be sensitive to frontal lobe damage, supporting the hypothesis …