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Executive functioning
Executive functioning refers to cognitive abilities such as abstract thinking, planning, organizing, and carrying out of behaviors. It also cncludes several cognitive capacities, including the ability to reject irrelevant information, formulate complex hypothetical arguments , organize an approach to a complex task, and follow a sequence of steps to task completion. Executive functioning is usually associated with advances in the development of the prefrontal cortex.
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