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Executive Function

Executive Function is a higher-order cognitive process within the domain of cognitive control that enables the regulation and coordination of goal-directed behaviors, including inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility, to adaptively respond to novel or complex environmental demands.

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2017–2026

2.9K

Variants

Executive ControlExecutive Functions

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Publications

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The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis

Akira Miyake, Naomi P. Friedman, Michael J. Emerson et al. · Cognitive Psychology · 2000 · 15.5K citations

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The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions

Akira Miyake, Naomi P. Friedman · Current Directions in Psychological Science · 2012 · 3.8K citations · Full text

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Testing the Efficiency and Independence of Attentional Networks

Jin Fan, Bruce D. McCandliss, Tobias Sommer et al. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 2002 · 3.7K citations

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Specific impairments of planning

T Shallice · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 1982 · 3.7K citations

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Distinct brain networks for adaptive and stable task control in humans

Nico U.F. Dosenbach, Damien A. Fair, Francis M. Miezin et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 2.8K citations · Full text

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Authors

26.6K

  1. TW
    Trevor W. Robbins

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    47 publications · 12.6K citations

    40

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  2. PD
    Philip David Zelazo

    University of Toronto, Canada

    35 publications · 11.1K citations

    31

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  3. NP
    Naomi P. Friedman

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    35 publications · 29K citations

    30

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  4. CB
    Clancy Blair

    New York University, United States

    42 publications · 6.1K citations

    30

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  5. EB
    Ellen Bialystok

    York University, Canada

    38 publications · 6.9K citations

    30

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Institutions

4.7K

  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    79 h-index

    409 publications

    66.8K citations

  2. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    66 h-index

    315 publications

    36.6K citations

  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    64 h-index

    414 publications

    47.9K citations

  4. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    58 h-index

    280 publications

    36.1K citations

  5. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    55 h-index

    220 publications

    28.8K citations

  6. New York University

    New York, United States

    55 h-index

    212 publications

    27.9K citations

  7. Inserm

    Paris, France

    54 h-index

    283 publications

    25.7K citations

  8. King's College London

    London, United Kingdom

    54 h-index

    362 publications

    42K citations

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    143 publications · 14.2K citations

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  2. Child Neuropsychology

    177 publications · 18.3K citations

    68

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  3. Developmental Neuropsychology

    106 publications · 21.9K citations

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  4. NeuroImage

    112 publications · 17.1K citations

    65

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  5. Neuropsychologia

    119 publications · 21.2K citations

    63

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