The role of prefrontal cortex in cognitive control and executive function

NP Friedman, TW Robbins - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Concepts of cognitive control (CC) and executive function (EF) are defined in terms
of their relationships with goal-directed behavior versus habits and controlled versus …

The unity and diversity of executive functions: A systematic review and re-analysis of latent variable studies.

JE Karr, CN Areshenkoff, P Rast, SM Hofer… - Psychological …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) has been frequently applied to executive function
measurement since first used to identify a three-factor model of inhibition, updating, and …

Unity and diversity of executive functions: Individual differences as a window on cognitive structure

NP Friedman, A Miyake - Cortex, 2017 - Elsevier
Executive functions (EFs) are high-level cognitive processes, often associated with the
frontal lobes, that control lower level processes in the service of goal-directed behavior …

Should we stop thinking about inhibition? Searching for individual and age differences in inhibition ability.

A Rey-Mermet, M Gade, K Oberauer - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Major depressive disorder is associated with broad impairments on neuropsychological measures of executive function: a meta-analysis and review.

HR Snyder - Psychological bulletin, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Cognitive impairments are now widely acknowledged as an important aspect of major
depressive disorder (MDD), and it has been proposed that executive function (EF) may be …

Does working memory training transfer? A meta-analysis including training conditions as moderators

M Schwaighofer, F Fischer, M Bühner - Educational Psychologist, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
A meta-analysis was undertaken to reexamine near-and far-transfer effects following
working-memory training and to consider potential moderators more systematically. Forty …

Individual differences in reappraisal ability: Links to reappraisal frequency, well-being, and cognitive control

K McRae, SE Jacobs, RD Ray, OP John… - Journal of Research in …, 2012 - Elsevier
Reappraisal is generally viewed as an adaptive emotion regulation strategy. Reappraisal
frequency has been associated with greater well-being, and reappraisal ability is thought to …

The relationship between working memory capacity and executive functioning: evidence for a common executive attention construct.

DP McCabe, HL Roediger III, MA McDaniel… - …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Attentional control has been conceptualized as executive functioning by neuropsychologists
and as working memory capacity by experimental psychologists. We examined the …

Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin.

NP Friedman, A Miyake, SE Young… - Journal of …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Recent psychological and neuropsychological research suggests that executive functions--
the cognitive control processes that regulate thought and action--are multifaceted and that …

Executive functions predict verbal fluency scores in healthy participants

J Amunts, JA Camilleri, SB Eickhoff, S Heim, S Weis - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
While there is a clear link between impairments of executive functions (EFs), ie cognitive
control mechanisms that facilitate goal-directed behavior, and speech problems, it is so far …