Executive functions (EFs) include high-order cognitive abilities such as working memory, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, planning, reasoning, and problem solving. EFs enable …
KK Szpunar, RN Spreng… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Prospection—the ability to represent what might happen in the future—is a broad concept that has been used to characterize a wide variety of future-oriented cognitions, including …
SN Gallant - Consciousness and cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on evidence for mindfulness meditation-related benefits to executive functioning, processes important for much of human volitional behaviour. Miyake et al.(2000) …
DA Gusnard, E Akbudak… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
Medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) is among those brain regions having the highest baseline metabolic activity at rest and one that exhibits decreases from this baseline across a wide …
RCK Chan, D Shum, T Toulopoulou… - Archives of clinical …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Abstract “Executive functions” is an umbrella term for functions such as planning, working memory, inhibition, mental flexibility, as well as the initiation and monitoring of action. The …
DT Stuss, B Levine - Annual review of psychology, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Clinical neuropsychologists have adopted numerous (and sometimes conflicting) approaches to the assessment of brain-behavior relationships. We review the historical …
VL Smith - American economic review, 2003 - pubs.aeaweb.org
When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life,(reason's) conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and'tis …
Moral cognitive neuroscience is an emerging field of research that focuses on the neural basis of uniquely human forms of social cognition and behaviour. Recent functional imaging …
Through evolution, humans have acquired'higher'cognitive skills—such as language, reasoning and planning—and complex social behaviour. Evidence from neuropsychological …