executive function
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexecutiveandfunction
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executive
noun[C]
uk/ɪɡˈzek.jə.tɪv/us/ɪɡˈzek.jə.t̬ɪv/
someone in a high position, especially in business, who makes decisions and puts them ...
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function
noun
uk/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/us/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of ...
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Whether children are playing, or learning language or math skills, they are also receiving training inexecutivefunctionskills at the same time.
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Other contributing factors may include decline in sensory input (hearing and visual acuity), working memory andexecutivefunction.
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These findings point to an association with wideranging aspects ofexecutivefunction, including planning and strategy formation, plus evaluating, checking, and monitoring of errors.
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Using tests ofexecutivefunction, they found abnormalities particularly during mania, and related particularly to thought disorder.
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Children with goodexecutivefunctionskills are diligent, well organized, disciplined in completing tasks, and strategic in their approach to resolving problems.
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In the second session, participants were administered the computerizedexecutivefunctiontests.
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Language use does not inherently seem to rest on memory, but working memory at least is normally considered to be part of theexecutivefunction.
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The non-frontal circuits are also likely to be implicated and crucial for intactexecutivefunction.
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Relating effortful control,executivefunction, and false-belief understanding to emerging math and literacy ability in kindergarten.
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In addition, no studies of adolescents or young adults who were preterm employed comprehensive neuropsychological testing including rigorous measures ofexecutivefunction.
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They found impairment on a broad range of dorsolateral prefrontalexecutivefunctiontasks and on some ventromedial tasks.
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Onexecutivefunctiontests, recovered subjects made significantly fewer perseverative errors and completed more categories than non-recovered subjects.
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They report thatexecutivefunctiondeficits are most evident during mania, and are associated with formal thought disorder.
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The results lend support to the emerging evidence that resistance to treatment in lateonset depression may be associated with impairedexecutivefunction.
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Introducingexecutivefunctionability into the epistemic equation affords a view of the process of development as bidirectional.
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This suggests that atypical antipsychotics may benefitexecutivefunction.
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Rather, it might involve more "high-level" processing based on theexecutivefunctionof the prefrontal brain.
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These difficulties appear to be independent of other deficits in cognitive ability andexecutivefunction.
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Being in foster care was significantly associated with worse emotion understanding and theory of mind capabilities, even when accounting for age, intelligence, andexecutivefunction.
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This ability to control attention is part of theexecutivefunctionthat is developing gradually in preschool in children.
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