Growing your executive function skills requires some executive function, leaving many of us in a challenging cycle of wanting to change but feeling stuck.

Understanding executive function can open the doors to new perspectives, strategies, and hope.

It isn't just individuals who suffer from this mini-cognitive-collapse. To fight it we must build Cultures of Completion.

A new study finds that deficits in executive function -- a measure of cognitive skills that allow a person to achieve goals by controlling their behavior -- predicts later aggressive behavior.

The article concludes with a consideration of how a multilevel approach may provide a more integrated account of executive function than has been previously available. Current Directions in ...

Executive function is the mechanism by which our brains manage and prioritize our thoughts, working memory, emotions and actions; Harvard researchers call it our brain’s air traffic control system.

Speaking more than one language may benefit children’s executive function - especially those with autism spectrum disorder, a recent analysis suggests. The study, published in Autism Research ...