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Your working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation are core components of executive function (EF), an interrelated set of mental skills that lay the foundation for advanced cognitive ...

Over the past year, I’ve received startlingly similar phone calls from families of college students: Their first- and second-year students across the United States are struggling with basic tasks and ...

Sustained attention is a crucial executive function skill, and it is the first topic we will explore in this series on ADHD and executive function skills. Executive function skills are brain-based ...

Letting infants watch tablets and TV may be impairing their academic achievement and emotional well-being later on, according to a new study. Researchers found that increased use of screen time during ...

Soon after her son started middle school, Kay Nash, head of talent at a Washington, D.C., law firm, started worrying about ...