Leading educators and futurists agree that mastering executive-functioning skills such as organization, flexibility, planning, and time management will be crucial to success at school and in many 21st ...

Executive function — the term for critical mental skills like organization, focus, time management and emotional regulation — help all of us navigate our daily lives. People with ADHD are much more ...

“All projects are secretly hydras and answering one question raises many others,” Berryhill said. "Specifically, the arrival ...

Teens’ focus is interrupted, on average, every 90 seconds. Something as simple as an audible notification can draw focus away from a task. And when humans are distracted, it takes 23 minutes to get ...

Over the past year, I’ve received startlingly similar phone calls from families of college students: Their first- and second-year students across the United States are struggling with basic tasks and ...

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Children who appear lazy, forgetful or unmotivated may actually be facing challenges with executive functioning, key brain ...

This post is part one of a series. Attention is a multifaceted process that manages the mental controls needed for school or work. Filtering incoming information to determine its importance (saliency) ...