The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions

The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis

2000 • 13,955 citations

A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety

2011 • 4,355 citations

The Elusive Nature of Executive Functions: A Review of our Current Understanding

2007 • 1,575 citations

Control of Cognitive Processes: Attention and Performance XVIII

2000 • 1,447 citations

Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin.

2008 • 1,438 citations

Not All Executive Functions Are Related to Intelligence

2006 • 1,248 citations

Making Working Memory Work: A Computational Model of Learning in the Prefrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia

2005 • 1,027 citations

Transfer of Learning After Updating Training Mediated by the Striatum

2008 • 851 citations

Using confirmatory factor analysis to understand executive control in preschool children: I. Latent structure.

2008 • 758 citations

A unified framework for inhibitory control

2011 • 606 citations

‘Willpower’ over the life span: decomposing self-regulation

2010 • 566 citations

Behavioral disinhibition: Liability for externalizing spectrum disorders and its genetic and environmental relation to response inhibition across adolescence.

2009 • 410 citations

Intentional Reconfiguration and Involuntary Persistence in Task Set Switching

2000 • 389 citations

Developmental trajectories in toddlers' self-restraint predict individual differences in executive functions 14 years later: A behavioral genetic analysis.

2011 • 323 citations

Executive function in daily life: Age-related influences of executive processes on instrumental activities of daily living.

2010 • 289 citations

Modeling a cascade of effects: the role of speed and executive functioning in preterm/full-term differences in academic achievement

2011 • 269 citations

Unity and diversity of frontal lobe functions.

1972 • 243 citations

Executive function moderates the intention-behavior link for physical activity and dietary behavior

2008 • 235 citations

Greater Attention Problems During Childhood Predict Poorer Executive Functioning in Late Adolescence

2007 • 224 citations

The Molecular Genetics of Executive Function: Role of Monoamine System Genes

2011 • 161 citations

Understanding the role of executive control in the Implicit Association Test: Why flexible people have small IAT effects

2009 • 137 citations

When Mental Inflexibility Facilitates Executive Control

2010 • 132 citations

How can you resist? Executive control helps romantically involved individuals to stay faithful.

2011 • 109 citations

From an Executive Network to Executive Control: A Computational Model of the n-back Task

2011 • 105 citations

Age, Race, and Implicit Prejudice

2009 • 99 citations