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Executive Functioning

Executive Functioning is a neurocognitive construct that encompasses a set of higher-order mental processes—such as working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control—by which individuals monitor, regulate, and organize goal-directed behaviors in response to novel or complex environmental demands.

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Executive Functions

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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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Dissociable Intrinsic Connectivity Networks for Salience Processing and Executive Control

William W. Seeley, Vinod Menon, Alan F. Schatzberg et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2007 · 7.5K citations · Full text

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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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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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Dissociating the Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Cognitive Control

Angus W. MacDonald, Jonathan D. Cohen, V. Andrew Stenger et al. · Science · 2000 · 3.7K citations

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Authors

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  1. TW
    Trevor W. Robbins

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    47 publications · 12.2K citations

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  2. BJ
    Barbara J. Sahakian

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    46 publications · 9.3K citations

    38

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  3. PD
    Philip David Zelazo

    University of Toronto, Canada

    40 publications · 11.7K citations

    33

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  4. CB
    Clancy Blair

    New York University, United States

    44 publications · 6.5K citations

    33

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  5. JO
    Jaap Oosterlaan

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    38 publications · 5K citations

    31

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Institutions

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  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    85 h-index

    529 publications

    85.8K citations

  2. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    78 h-index

    552 publications

    70.6K citations

  3. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    74 h-index

    401 publications

    40.1K citations

  4. Inserm

    Paris, France

    63 h-index

    411 publications

    41.5K citations

  5. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    62 h-index

    366 publications

    67.3K citations

  6. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    61 h-index

    363 publications

    35.9K citations

  7. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    60 h-index

    242 publications

    33.9K citations

  8. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    58 h-index

    358 publications

    36.3K citations

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  1. Neuropsychology

    188 publications · 17.5K citations

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  2. Developmental Neuropsychology

    127 publications · 24.9K citations

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  3. Neuropsychologia

    140 publications · 23.4K citations

    71

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  4. NeuroImage

    134 publications · 19.9K citations

    71

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  5. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

    JINS · 189 publications · 17.9K citations

    70

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