Short, reliable, easily administered executive function (EF) assessment tools are needed to measure EF in low- and middle-income countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa given the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated neurocognitive disorder. We Oxford Cognitive Screen—Executive Function (OCS-EF) 932 rural South African females (mean age 19.7 years). OCS-EF includes seve...

Abstract Executive functions are cognitive control processes for regulating attention and behavior of enormous importance child development. Accordingly, it is desirable to find effective interventions promote executive functions. Research suggests that musical training an activity can the development in childhood. The findings from existing studies, however, appear inconsistent. This systemati...

Background and Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotional working memory education on the ability to control emotions and cognitive emotion regulation in women hurt by infidelity. Materials and Methods: This was a pre-test, post-test and follow-up single-blind intervention study. From among the women hurt by infidelity referring to the Social Emergency Departm...

BACKGROUND Age-related alterations in both pain perception and inhibitory functions have been observed, but the relationship between the two in older adults remains unclear. Previous studies were mainly based on behavioural measures which do not allow assessment of underlying neural mechanisms. METHODS The present study evaluated the association between inhibition and pain perception in 26 he...

Abstract This study investigated how natural language use influences inhibition in language-unbalanced bilinguals. We experimentally induced patterns of (as proposed by the Adaptive Control Hypothesis) and assessed their cognitive after-effects a group 32 Polish–English Each participant took part series three games involving real conversation. game was followed two tasks (stop-signal task Stroo...