Executive function skills are a set of inter-related processes that support attention, self-control, and goal-directed ...

Principal Ian Knox’s thoughtful opinion essay, “Kindergartners Are Struggling With Self-Regulation. How Principals Can Respond ” (July 8, 2025), centers on steps school leaders can take to respond ...

Vulnerability causes people to do some interesting things. For preteens, it often manifests into cutthroat judgment and meanness as defense mechanisms. If you look stupid, then I won’t. Couple that ...

A good cry and short break later, I have my answer: I was attempting to think deeply when my brain wasn’t able to do so.

The current medical crisis is an unexpected global challenge, and people are in confusion mode. Pandemic solutions are required for the entire population, not only for hospitals. Basic human ...

Despite growing enthusiasm among educators and scholars about the potential of school-based executive function interventions to significantly increase student achievement, a federally funded ...

Impairments in social and executive brain functions hinder effective communication, according to new research in patients with dementia. Impairments in social and executive brain functions hinder ...

These data suggest a central role for working memory updating in complex motor performance and contribute to our understanding of how individual differences in executive functioning relate to movement ...