High-level cognitive skills help middle and high school students manage their emotions, behaviors, and responsibilities.

Individuals who struggle to complete tasks (at home, school, or the workplace) may not have a problem with executive function ...

Unfortunately for many adults, when we hear people talking about ADHD, we think of a little kid at school who can’t sit still and is bouncing around in his seat. But, that’s not really what ADHD is ...

Executive functions are cognitive skills that are essential for high-level tasks that involve setting goals and carrying them out. Adults and teens use these skills every day for planning, problem ...

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive function abilities, challenging the accuracy ...

College is often portrayed as a time of newfound independence – a chance for young adults to “spread their wings and fly.” But what happens when students arrive on campus unprepared to manage their ...

Executive function—top-down processes by which the human mind controls behavior, regulating thoughts and actions—have long been studied using a standard set of tools, with these assessments being ...

Background: In a recent study of Norwegian children (N = 874), Halse et al. used random-intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM) and concluded that their findings supported the assumption that ...