Title

Interdisciplinary Assessment Strategies For Capturing The Elusive Executive

Keywords

Behavioral medicine; Cognitive science; Diagnostic techniques and procedures; Rehabilitation

Abstract

Executive theory states that the executive functions are activated selectively based on the subjective perception that the immediate task is too difficult to handle through behavioral habits and too important to risk failure. Consequently, tests intended to assess the executive functions can serve their intended purpose only when they are so perceived. Because individual differences in motivation and attitudes are extensive, no single test can be presumed to measure executive function for all subjects. Executive assessment should use a variety of diverse measurement procedures to define a range of functioning. The transdisciplinary team possesses powerful advantages in conducting a diversified assessment of this kind. Copyright © 2009 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Publication Date

5-1-2009

Publication Title

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volume

88

Issue

5

Number of Pages

419-422

Document Type

Note

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1097/PHM.0b013e3181a0e2d3

Socpus ID

68049116954 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/68049116954

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