Sentence examples for executive control mechanisms from inspiring English sources

Deficits in that task, which are common in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), mirror either impaired semantic memory or dysfunctional executive control mechanisms.

An ongoing controversy concerns whether executive control mechanisms can actively reconfigure the cognitive system in preparation for switching to a new task set.

Finally, there is evidence that an attentional training can foster neuronal networks that underlie executive control mechanisms, whereas emotion regulation could be improved indirectly by cognitive training (Raz and Buhle 2006).

These results are incompatible with the idea that generic executive control mechanisms or attentional gating functions are the bottleneck underlying the interaction between working memory and the attentional blink.

The aim of the study was to investigate the neural bases of executive control mechanisms involved in the ability to suppress irrelevant visual information and inappropriate motor responses.

This area is known as a key region of schizophrenia pathology and belongs to a network that has been shown previously to be involved in impaired executive control mechanisms in schizophrenia.

Hence there could be confusion between an effect of an alerting cue reflecting a true phasic modulation of arousal, and an alerting effect relying more on an executive control mechanism.

(2003) state: "WMC is related to performance in situations in which an executive attention control mechanism is needed to combat some form of salient interference, be it proactive interference, response competition, or habitual but inappropriate responses".

Moreover, the stochastic oscillator is analogous to the "flip-flop" switch model that has been proposed to describe the executive neural control mechanism regulating transitions between behavioral states in mammals.

The former finding is in line with the proposition that intraindividual variability indexes neurobiological disturbance [e.g., 24] and executive and attentional control mechanisms supported by the frontal cortex [e.g., [25] [27]].

Boulinguez et al. (2009)[ 53] observed that the presentation of a warning signal involves an important executive control network inhibiting the mechanisms underlying movement initiation.