Patients with frontal lobe damage often have a lack of functionality of the central executive. One such issue is the inability to stop repetitive thoughts or actions, even if it is not helping towards a desired goal

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The central executive is the control center of working memory that supervises or controls the flow of information to and from the three short-term systems (the visuospatial sketchpad, the episodic buffer, and the phonological loop). It coordinates activities, decides where to direct attention, and is responsible for moving information into long-term memory.

Central executive

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


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