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executive function
A 'top-down' function that manages and controls cognitive processes, allowing goal-directed behavior.

Classified under Executive/Cognitive Control
Definition contributed by MSharman about three weeks ago.

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Task Contrast Measure
Wisconsin card sorting test
  • Total number of categories acheived
  
WISC-R Mazes
  • participant score minus average score
  
Trail Making Test A and B
  • ANOVA of time by age group
  
Eriksen flanker task
  • incongruent response time - congruent response time
  
divided auditory attention
  • response time and accuracy
  
Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function
  • Negativity Scale
  
  • Inconsistency Scale
  
digit span task
  • backward
  
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Definition contributed by MSharman about three weeks ago:
A 'top-down' function that manages and controls other cognitive processes, allowing goal-directed behavior.

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Definition contributed by RPoldrack about two years ago:
A top-down system that manages and controls other cognitive processes, allowing goal-directed behavior.

Revision 1

Definition contributed by SAdministrator about three years ago:
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2012-05-03 MSharman: MSharman updated the definition for executive function
2012-05-03 MSharman: MSharman updated the definition for executive function
2011-04-28 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/Behavioral_Rating_Inventory_of_Executive_Function]
2010-07-21 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/Behavioral_Rating_Inventory_of_Executive_Function]
2010-07-21 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/Behavioral_Rating_Inventory_of_Executive_Function]
2010-07-21 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/Behavioral_Rating_Inventory_of_Executive_Function]
2010-01-10 RPoldrack: RPoldrack updated the definition for executive function. [view the changes at http://www.cognitiveatlas.org/term/executive_function]
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