How successfully do you pursue goals and plans? Executive functions are cognitive skills—including working memory, self-awareness, and emotional regulation—that help individuals successfully set and ...

Your working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation are core components of executive function (EF), an interrelated set of mental skills that lay the foundation for advanced cognitive ...

This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine. The ability to set a goal and pursue it without getting derailed by temptations or distractions is essential to nearly everything we do in ...

Speech rate and word-finding difficulties, including pausing and use of fillers such as “um” and “uh,” were associated with changes in executive function across the adult lifespan in a new study. Jed ...

During neuropsychological assessments, participants complete tasks designed to study memory and thinking. Based on their performance, the participants receive a score that researchers use to evaluate ...

When a CEO develops acquired executive dysfunction (e.g., from a stroke or neurodegenerative change) yet remains in their ...