In many circumstances alternative courses of action and thoughts have to be inhibited to
allow the emergence of goal-directed behavior. However, this has not been the accepted …

Verbal Working memory (vWM) capacity measures the ability to maintain and manipulate
verbal information for a short period of time. The specific neural correlates of this construct …

Passionate, courageous, and at times controversial, The Anatomy of Violence is a ground-
breaking work that will challenge your core human values and perspectives on violence …

Response inhibition paradigms, as for example stop signal and go/no-go tasks, are often
used to study cognitive control processes. Because of the apparent demand to stop a motor …

Although the structure of executive function (EF) during adulthood is characterized by both
unity and diversity, recent evidence suggests that preschool EF may be best described by a …

The supervisory attentional system has been proposed to mediate non-routine, goal-
oriented behaviour by guiding the selection and maintenance of the goal-relevant task …

Delineating the functional organization of the prefrontal cortex is central to advancing
models of goal‐directed cognition. Considerable evidence indicates that specific forms of …

Neuroimaging studies have utilized two primary tasks to assess motor response inhibition, a
major form of inhibitory control: the Go/NoGo (GNG) task and the Stop-Signal Task (SST). It …

Executive functions, including working memory and inhibition, are of central importance to
much of human behavior. Interventions intended to improve executive functions might …

Introduction Executive functions (EFs) training interventions aimed at ADHD-symptom
reduction have yielded mixed results. Generally, these interventions focus on training a …