In search of better practice in executive functions assessment: Methodological issues and potential solutions.

M Yangüez, B Bediou, J Chanal… - Psychological Review, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The multicomponent nature of executive functions (EF) has long been recognized, pushing
for a better understanding of both the commonalities and the diversity between EF …

[HTML][HTML] Frontotemporal effective connectivity revealed a language-general syntactic network for Mandarin Chinese

L Chen, C Gao, Z Li, E Zaccarella, AD Friederici… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Human language is proposed to be hierarchically constructed according to syntactic
information. Studies on languages with overt morphosyntactic markers (eg, German) have …

The development of cognitive flexibility and its implications for mental health disorders

K Tong, X Fu, NP Hoo, LK Mun, C Vassiliu… - Psychological …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Cognitive flexibility (CF) represents the ability to adapt one's thinking and behavior in
response to changing environmental demands (Uddin, 2021). CF is multifaceted and …

The structure of individual differences in procedural working memory: Comparing task switching and stimulus response rule information load

D Garbi, N Meiran - Intelligence, 2024 - Elsevier
Working memory (WM) serves not just for remembering facts (“declarative WM”) but also for
controlling action and thought (“procedural WM”, pWM) by holding and manipulating task …

Novel Genes Associated With Working Memory Are Identified by Combining Connectome, Transcriptome, and Genome

X Zhao, R Yin, C Chen, S Markett, X Wang… - Human Brain …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Working memory (WM) plays a crucial role in human cognition. Previous candidate and
genome‐wide association studies have reported many genetic variations associated with …

Improved estimation of general cognitive ability and its neural correlates with a large battery of cognitive tasks

L Zhang, J Feng, C Liu, H Hu, Y Zhou, G Yang… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Elucidating the neural mechanisms of general cognitive ability (GCA) is an important
mission of cognitive neuroscience. Recent large-sample cohort studies measured GCA …

Uncovering narrative aging: an underlying neural mechanism compensated through spatial constructional ability

Y Li, J Zhang, X Li, Z Zhang - Communications Biology, 2025 - nature.com
Abstract “The narrative” is a complex cognitive process that has sparked a debate on
whether its features age through maintenance or decline. To address this question, we …

Task Switching: On the Relation of Cognitive Flexibility with Cognitive Capacity

F Schmitz, RJ Krämer - Journal of Intelligence, 2023 - mdpi.com
The task-switching paradigm is deemed a measure of cognitive flexibility. Previous research
has demonstrated that individual differences in task-switch costs are moderately inversely …

The development and validation of a tablet-based assessment battery of general cognitive ability

D Pan, H **e, Y Zeng, Y Zhou, C Lin, X Ma, J Ren… - BMC psychology, 2024 - Springer
Background Traditional cognitive assessments, often reliant on paper-and-pencil tests and
professional evaluators, suffer from subjectivity and limited result discrimination. This study …

Cortical morphological alterations in cognitively normal Parkinson's disease with severe hyposmia

J Li, Y Xu, X Liu, F Yang, W Fan - Brain Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Olfactory dysfunction is a common non-motor symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) and may
hold valuable insights into the disease's underlying pathophysiology. This study aimed to …