The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis

@article{Miyake2000TheUA,
  title={The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis},
  author={Akira Miyake and Naomi P. Friedman and Michael J. Emerson and Alexander Witzki and Amy Howerter and Tor D. Wager},
  journal={Cognitive Psychology},
  year={2000},
  volume={41},
  pages={49-100}
}
This individual differences study examined the separability of three often postulated executive functions-mental set shifting ("Shifting"), information updating and monitoring ("Updating"), and inhibition of prepotent responses ("Inhibition")-and their roles in complex "frontal lobe" or "executive" tasks. One hundred thirty-seven college students performed a set of relatively simple experimental tasks that are considered to predominantly tap each target executive function as well as a set of… 
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