Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

Sucheta Kamath

Welcome to the podcast, Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function hosted by Sucheta Kamath. Executive Function is a core set of cognitive skills that allow humans to focus attention, block out distractions, plan ahead, stay engaged, temper emotions, and think flexibly while creatively solving problems to fulfill personal and social goals. The prefrontal cortex region of the brain, which governs Executive Function, is often compared to an air traffic control system at a busy airport. Much like an air traffic controller guides planes on different flight paths in the direction that each needs to go, the prefrontal cortex i...

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Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

Episodes (210)

Aug 20, 2025 Ep. 210: Hugh Catts, Ph.D. - Reading Comprehension: Not a One-Size-Fits-All Skill
Aug 13, 2025 Ep. 209: Mickey Smith Jr. - Students, You Matter to Me!
Aug 6, 2025 Ep. 208: Dr. Garry McGiboney - Reimagining Learning Engagement

Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

Aug 20, 2025
57 minutes
39 MB

Send us a text Reading comprehension isn’t a checklist skill. It’s an active process shaped by what students know and how they think. With the nation's attention laser focused on promoting literacy outcomes in K-12 education, too often, comprehension is treated as a skill to be mastered through activities such as finding the main idea or making inferences. Rather than viewing it as a one-size-fits-all skill, reading comprehension needs to be recognized as an active process that involves both the text and the reader and that emphasizes its complexity, context-dependency, and developmental nature. In th...

Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

Ep. 210: Hugh Catts, Ph.D. - Reading Comprehension: Not a One-Size-Fits-All Skill

Sucheta Kamath

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