WHEN NBC hired Ben Silverman in May 2007, he was the hottest executive in the television business, the man who had a hand in bringing reality shows and "The Office" to America.
One of the hottest executive suite titles to have these days -- even more so than a decade ago – is that of the Chief Information Officer.
The children's gambling task (CGT [Kerr, A., & Zelazo, P. D. (2004). Development of "Hot" executive function: The children's gambling task. Brain and Cognition, 55, 148 157]) involves integrating information about losses and gains to maximize winnings when selecting cards from two decks.
Or, better yet, just plan a trip to Mustique where the sun is always shining and the grill at The Beach Café is always hot! Executive Chef, The Cotton House, Mustique.
However, few data are available on decision-making processes or hot executive function in CD.
Therefore, one can argue that delay discounting captures cold executive functions, while DoG covers hot executive functions.
"Hot" executive functions, such as reward-related decision-making tasks, measure the impact of incentives or motivation on cognitive performance.
Because the task also measures reward processing and reward-related inter-temporal decision-making (even if the key dependent variable is the timing of the reward), it is often categorised a "hot" executive function.
The theoretical framework is further complicated by the fact that so-called "hot executive functions"[ 38] comprising a range of functions such as emotional decision-making and learning by reward and punishment are also compromised in a subset of children with ADHD (see [ 20, 39- 41]).
Fifteen years ago, he was one of the hottest young executives in baseball.
