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These executive processes are necessary to control the workflow of activities taking place in working memory, for example selecting stimuli for momentary operations.

There is increased recognition that "non-linguistic" executive processes are relevant to understanding aphasia in monolinguals (Frankel, Penn, & Ormond-Brown, 2007).

This work will build on published evidence of the role of executive control in implementing intended health behaviours by investigating which executive processes are most important for translating dietary intentions into action.

When listening takes place in adverse conditions, for example, when there is background noise or the listener has a hearing impairment, high-level cognitive functions such as working memory and executive processes are implicated [ 41, 42].

This finding of enhanced long distance cortical coupling and its implication for more effective executive functioning has been supported by others [ 16, 78] who investigated whether varying demands on central executive processes are reflected by differences in coherence activity.

If multiple executive processes are found to be involved in intention-behaviour translation then public health interventions could utilise this information by designing interventions aimed at reducing the demand on the identified executive processes.

No significant correlation with measures related to executive processes was found.

The three executive processes were then entered into regression model and only those that significantly improved the model were kept in the model (i.e., significant Rsq change).

Three executive processes were assessed by standard neuropsychological tests: 1) set shifting; 2) working memory; and 3) selective attention and response inhibition.

If demand on executive processes is greater during WM manipulation than maintenance (and single tasks are equated for task difficulty), perhaps insufficient executive resources remain for manipulating object and spatial information concurrently in WM to achieve a level of performance equivalent to the single tasks.

These findings suggest that not all-executive processes are exclusively sustained by the frontal cortex [Quart J Exp Psychol 9 (1996) 5; Curr Opin Neurobiol 10 (2000) 195; Neuropsychology (1994) 544; The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer-type dementia. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996].