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Executive control is a vital cognitive function that facilitates the focussing and shifting of attention, planning and working towards a goal, ignoring distractions, and flexibly responding to novel situations. Disruptions to executive control are seen in many psychiatric and ne…

Increased exploration, risk-taking and reward-seeking are the hallmarks of adolescence. These and related behaviors prepare the young to transition from the parent’s nest to independent living. Adolescence is also a period of heightened structural and functional brain reorganiza…

Reversal learning is a measure of a subject’s ability to correctly allocate their behavior to a response following a change in contingencies (Audet and Lefebvre, 2017) and is used to measure behavioral flexibility across multiple disciplines (Laughlin, Grant, Williams & Jentsch,…