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CONCEPT
executive control
A top-down system that manages and controls other cognitive processes, allowing goal-directed behavior.

Classified under Executive/Cognitive Control
Definition contributed by RPoldrack about two years ago.

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attention networks test
    		 
    antisaccade/prosaccade task
      		 
      alternating runs paradigm
        		 
        self-ordered pointing task
        • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
        		  
        divided auditory attention
        • response time and accuracy
        		  
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        Definition contributed by ALenartowicz about three years ago:
        The cognitive process of overriding a prepotent response.

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        2010-01-10 RPoldrack: RPoldrack updated the definition for executive control. [view the changes at http://www.cognitiveatlas.org/term/executive_control]
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