Executive function—top-down processes by which the human mind controls behavior, regulating thoughts and actions—have long ...

New research published in the journal Psychopharmacology shows that psilocybin—the psychedelic compound found in certain ...

Large Implications for Aging Research and Monitoring AbilitiesSAN FRANCISCO, July 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new study ...

Relating effortful control, executive function, and false belief understanding to emerging math and literacy ability in kindergarten. Child Development , 78 (2), 647–663.

The gap between a brain’s chronological age and its predicted age strongly mediates risk factors for cognitive decline, ...

Teenagers have an abundance of neural pathways, more than what is actually needed to exercise executive function and cognitive control. Teen experiences such as undertaking college tours, ...

Access to nature promotes physical and mental health, and it is vital for children’s social and emotional development.

A new study published this week in Nature Communications presents some of the first definitive evidence that executive function - a set of cognitive skills underlying the ability to plan ...

We derived a five-factor model composed of episodic memory, processing speed, working memory, executive function/attentional control and visuospatial ... Several demographic and genetic factors might ...