How to Use executive control in a Sentence

executive control

noun

• This rewiring takes place in three key brain networks that correspond to key functional domains, often referred to as the reward system, the stress response system and the system in charge of executive control.
  — Claire Wilcox, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
• And more recent congressional resolutions have broadened executive control even further.
  — Sarah Burns, The Conversation, 23 June 2025
• Third, overuse of most addictive substances progressively damages the brain’s executive control network, the prefrontal cortex, and other key parts of the brain involved in impulse control and self-regulation.
  — Claire Wilcox, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
• Excessive exposure to high-sugar foods has also been found to reduce cognitive function and cause damage to the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, the parts of the brain that mediate executive control and memory.
  — Claire Wilcox, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
• This form of cognitive reappraisal will reduce activity in the amygdala while increasing activity in prefrontal regions associated with executive control.
  — Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Big Think, 29 Sep. 2025