Overarching purpose

Cognitive skill

Neurocognitive processes

Corresponding

neurobehavioral syndrome

Set Formation

(Generating short-term and

long-term goals)

Planning and reasoning

Focusing attention

Generativity (1a)

Memory retrieval

Working memory (1b)

Sequencing

Dysexecutive/Disorganized

(primarily lesions in DLPFC)

(I)

Set Maintenance

(Executing short-term and

long-term goals)

Organization

Sequencing

Working memory

Follow-through

Initiation (2a)

Response selection/conflict resolution (2b)

Selective attention

Self monitoring

Attentional vigilance (2c)

Apathetic

(primarily lesions in SMPFC)

(II)

Social appropriateness, judgment

Inhibition (2d)

Discrepancy detection

Disinhibited or Psychopathic

(primarily lesions in VMPFC and OFPFC) (III)

Set Shifting

(Altering short-term and

long-term goals in

response to changes in

situations and contexts)

Problem-solving

Discrepancy detection

Cognitive flexibility (3)

Attentional shifting

Generativity

Memory retrieval

Working memory

Dysexecutive/Perseverative

(primarily lesions in DLPFC)

(IV)