Executive function
= Executive function
= EF
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Processes supporting goal-directed control, including maintaining and updating relevant information, inhibiting competing responses and changing task sets. Their importance depends on what a task requires: an initially effortful procedure may need less executive control after practice. The unity-and-diversity framework distinguishes correlated components without equating a single test score with a pure executive capacity.<The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex frontal lobe tasks by Akira Miyake and others>[Cognitive Psychology 41, 49–100; latent-variable analyses]{ref}