The Myth of Executive Functioning : Missing Elements in Conceptualization, Evaluation, and Assessment / by Leonard F. Koziol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koziol, Leonard F., author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

SpringerBriefs in neuroscience 2191-558X

SpringerBriefs in Neuroscience, 2191-558X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Neurosciences.

Rehabilitation.

Clinical psychology.

Developmental psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustration.

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Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

Executive functioning: we measure it, assess it, document its development in youth, track its decline in age, and use it as a basis for diagnoses, treatment planning, and--of course--theories. Could it be possible that science has spent decades chasing a cognitive phantom? Noting the lack of consensus concerning definition, component skills, and location within the brain, The Myth of Executive Functioning calls basic assumptions, prominent theories, commonly used test methods, and even the phrase executive functioning into question. The book's deceptively simple argument takes an evolutionary/neuroscience look at the cornerstones of cognitive organization, including memory, planning, decision-making, and adaptation to novel circumstances. From there, gaps are identified between systems of cognitive control and those behaviors that are evaluated in neuropsychological testing--gaps that contribute to the disconnect between how science views mind and body, brain and behavior. The author's problem-solving metaphor places new emphasis on stimulus processing and on the relationship between movement and thought as he offers thought-provoking perspectives on: The limits of neuropsychological constructs. The components of adaptive thinking. The automatic aspects of problem solving. The left-brain/right-brain dichotomy. Problems with the domain approach to cognition. New paradigms for testing cognitive functioning. A controversial presentation with the potential to change clinical practice and training, The Myth of Executive Functioning will be read, debated, and learned from by neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, cognitive neuroscientists, and rehabilitation specialists.

Contents:

Introduction

Problem Solving: Practical Examples and Additional Properties

The Problem Solving Metaphor, Neuropsychology, and Exective Functioning

Neuropsychological Constructs, Assumptions, and Executive Functioning: Revisiting Principles of Brain Organization

Functional Domains, Unitary Constructs, and the Intergrated Brain

Large Scale Brain Systems

The Application of Large Scale Brain Systems to Practical "EF" Behavior: Revisting the Introductory Examples

The Novelty -Routinization Principle of Brain Organization

Clues to Understanding the Phylogeny of Behavioral Control

Ways of Generating Behavior

Movement, Thinking, Anticipation, and Banishing Exectuvie Functioning

The Four Steps of the Development of the Cognitive Control System

Abolishing the Executive and the Mind-Body Problem

Why Cognitive Control is an Expansion of Cortical-Cerebellar and Cortical-Basal Ganglia Motor Control Systems

The Cerebro-Cerebellar Underpinning of Cognitive Control

Structure and Function of the Cerebro-Cerebellar Circuitary System

The Basal Ganglia Underpinning of Cognitive Control: The Fronto-Striatal System

Cognitive Control, Reward, and the Basal Ganglia

Basal Ganglia Dynamics, Cognition, and Social Behavior

Interim Summary

How Well Do These Principles “FIT” Exceptional Cases?

Why People Who Cannot Move Are Aable to Think

The Exceptionality of the Congenitally Blind

The Exceptionality of Deafness

NEeuropsychological Testing and Neuropsychological Evaluation: Is There A Difference Between These Aprroaches?

Missing Elements in the Neuropsychological Assessment of EF

The Tradtional Neuropsychological Assessment Paradigm

The Motor Examination

The Evaluation of Reward Preferences

Summary, Conclusions, and Future Directions.

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ISBN:

9783319044774

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