Raise your hand if you’ve been here: you know you have a small return window for a shirt you bought, but you put off bringing it back to the store day after day. Or maybe you’re buried in a project at ...

The executive function skill (EF skill) I am focusing in this post is task initiation, which is the ability to get started on various tasks (Mutti-Driscoll, 2024). As a reminder, EF skills are ...

In a primate study, animals were less likely to start a task when reward came with an unpleasant consequence Blocking a specific brain pathway increased the likelihood of taking the first step, ...