Abstract:Executive functions are considered as higher mental-processes involved in dealing with novel situations as in opposition to automatic-responses, which are habitual in nature and a result of learning and experience, moreover it is an umbrella-term, containing a number of cognitive-processes like planning, execution, problem-solving response-inhibition, working-memory, initiation and reasoning.
This study is an attempt to study the gender-difference and difference between two groups of people with Generalized and Partial epilepsy in Response-inhibition. Significant gender-difference was found in Response-Inhibition of the people with epilepsy. Moreover Deficit cases were also calculated for all the groups...........
KEY WORDS: Executive Functions, Response-Inhibition, Generalized and Partial Epilepsy.
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