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Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin.

Journal of experimental psychology. General - 1 May 2008

Friedman Naomi P, Miyake Akira, Young Susan E, DeFries John C, Corley Robin P, Hewitt John K

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Recent psychological and neuropsychological research suggests that executive functions--the cognitive control processes that regulate thought and action--are multifaceted and that different types of executive functions are correlated but separable. The present multivariate twin study of 3 executive functions (inhibiting dominant responses, updating working memory representations, and shifting between task sets),...

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PMID: 18473654
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.137.2.201
PMCID: PMC2762790

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