Positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
have been extensively used to explore the functional neuroanatomy of cognitive functions …

By utilizing new information from both clinical and experimental (lesion, electrophysiological,
and gene-activation) studies with animals, the anatomy underlying anterograde amnesia …

This individual differences study examined the separability of three often postulated
executive functions—mental set shifting (“Shifting”), information updating and monitoring …

Objective: To devise a short bedside cognitive and behavioral battery to assess frontal lobe
functions. Methods: The designed battery consists of six subtests exploring the following …

The ability to cognitively regulate emotional responses to aversive events is important for
mental and physical health. Little is known, however, about neural bases of the cognitive …

Abstract “Theory of mind,” the ability to make inferences about others' mental states, seems
to be a modular cognitive capacity that underlies humans' ability to engage in complex …

Although recent neuroimaging studies suggest that prefrontal cortex (PFC) is involved in
working memory (WM), the relationship between PFC activity and memory load has not yet …

In this review we summarize the progress that has been made in the research on attentional
and executive deficits in Alzheimer's disease. Like memory, attention is now recognized as …

Participants performed choice reaction time (RT) tasks on 2-dimensional stimuli such that
each task was based on 1 stimulus dimension. A cue preceded the target stimulus and …

Executive function (EF) accounts have now been offered for several disorders with
childhood onset (eg, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, early-treated …