Advancing understanding of executive function impairments and psychopathology: Bridging the gap between clinical and cognitive approaches

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Snyder, Hannah R ^a   Miyake, Akira ^b   Hankin, Benjamin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive function; Inhibition; Methods; Psychopathology; Shifting; Transdiagnostic; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926616871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00328     Document Type: Article

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