For those interested in following research, here is a non-comprehensive list of some of the researchers whose focus involves executive functions:
- Alan Baddeley, University of York (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Wikipedia)
- Co-created the Multiple Components Model of Working Memory (wiki)
- Interests: working memory, human memory, neuropsychology, practical application of cognitive psychology
- Russell A. Barkley, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (Website, Google Scholar, Wikipedia)
- Interests: ADHD, executive function, sluggish cognitive tempo, self-regulation
- Senne Braem, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: cognitive control, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, reinforcement learning, memory, executive function, visual attention, imaging, event-related potentials, task switching, priming
- Dina Dajani (Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: cognitive neuroscience, executive function, child development, cognitive development, development psychopathology, cognitive flexibility, autism spectrum disorders
- Stephen V. Faraone, SUNY Upstate Medical University (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Wikipedia)
- Interests: ADHD, genetics, childhood psychiatric disorders, psycopharmacology
- Naomi P. Friedman, University of Colorado Boulder (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: executive function, self-regulation, substance use, behavioral genetics, psychopathology, individual differences, molecular genetics, neuroimaging, computational modeling
- Caterina Gawrilow, University of Tuebingen (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: executive function, learning, child development, cognitive development, developmental disabilities, school psychology, ADHD
- Peter Gollwitzer, New York University (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate, Wikipedia)
- Interests: motivation, implementation intentions, goal achievement, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral psychology, psychological testing, personality assessment, psychology of adolescence, motivational psychology, social psychology, visual attention, social cognition, emotional regulation, self-regulation, goal pursuit, executive function
- Robert S. Gutzwiller, Arizona State University (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: attention, multi-tasking, human-machine teaming, cybersecurity, human factors psychology, cognitive modeling, task analysis, cognitive ergonomics
- Lauren Kenworthy, Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children’s National (staff profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: executive function, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive development, autism spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, psychological assessment
- Nima Khalighinejad, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: executive function, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive development, autism spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, psychological assessment
- Matthias Kliegel, University of Geneva (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: executive function across the lifespan, cognitive development across the lifespan, plasticity of memory, aging, health behavior across the lifespan, memory, cognitive neuropsychology
- Iring Koch, RWTH Aachen University (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: multitasking, cognitive control, attention, action planing, learning
- Michael Kofler, Florida State University (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: executive function, working memory, visual attention, ADHD, neurocognitive functioning
- Joshua M Langberg, ADHD Clinic, Virginia Commonwealth University (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: ADHD, neuropsychology, child development, developmental psychopathology, comorbidity, neuropsychology, psychology of adolescense,
- Akira Miyake, University of Colorado Boulder (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Website)
- Interests: executive function, working memory, language processing and learning, visuospatial thinking, problem solving and reasoning, social functioning, impulse control, substance use, stereotyping behavior, individual differences, behavioral genetics, event-related potentials
- Robin G. Morris, Kings College, London (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: executive functioning, memory, alzheimer’s disease, small vessel disease, cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology
- Brandon Schmeichel, Texas A&M University (faculty profile, Google Scholar)
- Interests: working memory, emotion, self control, social & personality psychology, affective science, personality processes,
- Geoff Ward, University of Essex (faculty profile, Google Scholar, Research Gate)
- Interests: encoding and retrieval processes in human memory, short term memory, the possibility of augmenting human memory through technology