Executive functions
Executive functions are the conscious control of one's thoughts, emotions, and movements. This control allows for available information to be used in planning, prioritizing, sequencing, self-monitoring, self-correcting, abstract thinking, problem solving and inhibiting, initiating, controlling, or altering behavior.
The main areas of the brain related to the performance of executive functions are the prefrontal cortex and the frontal lobe.
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