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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Executive Control"”.
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Affective Modulation of Executive Control
… processing and place heightened demands on control. Yet the executive control mechanisms that subsequently resolve that interference have not been well characterized. Although many failures of executive control have emotion at their core, numerous questions remain in the field regarding …
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Cardiorespiratory Influences on Executive Control Function
Cardiorespiratory fitness influences on executive control function were assessed for 72 young adults (23 males). Behavioral and neuroelectric indices of action monitoring were obtained while participants completed both a modified flanker task and a modified Sternberg task under task instruction …
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Executive control in the anterior cingulate cortex
… that the prefrontal cortex is critical for executive control. One prefrontal subregion, the anterior cingulate cortex has previously been shown to be active in situations involving high conflict, presentation of salient, distracting stimuli, and error processing, i.e. situations that occur …
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Executive control of sentence perception: an electrophysiological investigation
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Executive control: an electrophysiological investigation of control processes
… and monitoring of behaviour is termed ‘control’ and refers to a set of functions that serve to configure the mental system for performing specific acts. A system of cognitive control is thought to set high level goals and direct subordinate cognitive systems in order to accomplish those …
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Norming of the Executive Control Battery in Children
Executive functions include the ability of inhibiting responses, goal formation, planning, carrying out goal-directed plans, and effective performance (Jurado & Roselli, 2007). This study presents the findings of statistical analyses that were conducted to examine this study's five research …
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The role of executive control in garden path reinterpretation
… sentences), this thesis examined the role of executive control, particularly ability to attend to relevant information and ignore salient but irrelevant information, in reinterpretation. To the extent that executive control ability varies from individual to individual, ability to recover from …
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Contributions of executive control to individual differences in word production
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Effects of goal maintenance training on executive control in older adults
Due to the fact that executive control abilities are necessary for successful execution of many cognitive and real-world tasks, interest has arisen in determining how these abilities can be improved. A previous study demonstrated that both practice and strategy training improved performance in …
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Evaluation of Attention and Executive Control within a Model of Gf-Gc Cognitive Functioning
… the Gf-Gc domains including added attention and executive control domains, which was measured by the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, 4th Edition (WISC-IV) and Conners' Continuous Performance Test, 2nd Edition (CPT-II). These domains were compared via factor analysis of the WISC-IV and …
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Working Memory Deficits in Children: Contributions of Executive Control Processes and Symptoms of ADHD
… (c) the episodic buffer, and (d) the central executive (Baddeley and Hitch, 1974; Baddeley, 2003). The central executive has been fractionated into four subprocesses: (a) sustained attention, (b) selective attention/inhibition (c) shifting attention, and (d) control of retrieval from long-term …
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Age Differences in Prospective Memory: An Examination of the Role of Fluctuations in Executive Control
… times-is a cognitive function that relies on controlled or automatic processing to various degrees. Age differences in ProM are most likely to be observed on tasks that rely heavily on controlled processes. This is consistent with certain frontal lobe theories of cognitive aging that also make …
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High-Definition Fiber Tracking Study of the Executive Control Network in Blast-Related Traumatic Brain Injury
… evaluated structure and functional correlates of executive control network (ECN) white matter tracts in veterans with and without bTBI to investigate the clinical utility of using High Definition Fiber Tracking (HDFT) to identify a biomarker of chronic bTBI. For the current study, male veterans (N …
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A multimethod examination of the relevance of executive control to disgust and mental contamination among female sexual assault survivors.
… literature points to the possibility that executive control deficits are important in understanding the role of disgust and mental contamination in relation to PTSS. Yet, to date, whether disgust or mental contamination relates to executive control deficits among female sexual assault …
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Task Switching and Distractibility
… critically depends on the availability of executive control to minimise the effects of irrelevant stimuli (e.g. Lavie, 2000). Much work on task switching suggests that task switching demands executive control in order to prepare for and implement a switch between tasks (e.g. Monsell, 2003; …
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The acute effects of varying intensities of treadmill walking exercise on cognition in persons with multiple sclerosis
… that exerts the greatest beneficial effects on executive control in persons with mild MS disability. However, the dose-dependent effects of varying intensities of treadmill walking exercise on this cognitive function are unknown. Such an investigation is critical for providing the final data for …
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