Silke Coemans, Stefanie Keulen, Perseverence Savieri, Kyrana Tsapkini, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Nini Chrispeels, Dorien Vandenborre, Philippe Paquier, Ineke Wilssens, Mathieu Declerck, Esli Struys
Executive functions (EFs) refer to a set of cognitive processes, specifically shifting, inhibition, updating of working memory, and are involved in the cognitive control of behavior. Conflicting results have been reported regarding impairments of EFs in Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). We performed a multi-level meta-analysis to confirm whether deficits of EFs exist in this population, focusing on a common EFs composite, and the components shifting, inhibition and updating separately. We included 141 studies that report on 294 EFs tasks...
October 10, 2022: Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior