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The Application of Large Scale Brain Systems to Practical “EF” Behavior: Revisiting the Introductory Examples

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The introduction of this paper described numerous examples of decision making, or problem-solving. These examples warrant a close examination of the concept of cognitive control, how it differs in some of these examples, and how it is measured in neuropsychological evaluation. All examples required keeping information in mind for the ultimate purpose of guiding behavior. To reiterate, this is a task-dependent cognitive system, with a changing locus of control dependent on the task in question, an extension of the fronto-striatal motor control system [42, 51].

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