Planning ability is important in many everyday tasks, such as cooking and shopping.
Previous studies have investigated aging effects on planning, looking at either widely used …

The aim of this study was to re-examine the hypothesis of a link between frontal cortex and
the Supervisory Attentional System (SAS; Shallice, 1988). Contrary to previous studies that …

Publisher Summary Parsimony has led to a search for unifying generic constructs or brain
areas that are widely applicable across domains, that is, cognitive aging. From a cognitive …

Résumé Il est maintenu bien reconnu que le vieillissement cognitif est associé à une
diminution des capacités exécutives. Toutefois, si des déficits sont effectivement observés …

Objectives To describe normative data for the Hayling Test and the Trail Making Test (TMT)
in a sample of Brazilian adults, and to investigate the effects of age and education on test …

Before continuing, it should be acknowledged that research in emotional development was
scanty in the first half of the twentieth century. Psychology remained firmly ensconced in the …

Individuals who carry a premutation (PM) allele on the FMR1 gene may experience
executive limitations associated with their genetic status, including inhibition deficits …

Impairments in executive functioning frequently occur after acquired brain damage, in
psychiatric disorders, and in relation to aging. The Brixton Spatial Anticipation Test is a …

In older adults, maintaining balance and processing information typically interfere with each
other, suggesting that executive functions may be engaged for both. We investigated …

This study aimed to explore the executive function of healthy elderly Chinese people. A
sample of 58 healthy Chinese aged 60 and over was recruited from Guangzhou in China …