Executive functions are cognitive skills that are interconnected and necessary for adaptive functioning. They are most often categorized as inhibitory control, updating of working memory and switching or cognitive flexibility. From these components arise higher-order executive functions, such as planning, which most often occurs together with the first three. Conceptualizations of executive function originally arose from clinical observations of individuals with frontal lobe damage, and therefore executive function was first associated with this brain region. Despite many connections with the frontal lobes of the brain, due to the variety of neuropsychological deficiencies or symptoms of executive dysfunction, the connection between deficits of executive functions and the brain areas that are supposed to be responsible for them is still not completely clear. In this paper, we therefore wanted to investigate the role of damage to the frontal lobe in executive dysfunction. In addition, the aim of was to validate the new serious game CCRacer, which was developed with the aim of overcoming some of the limitations of classic neuropsychological tools, on a clinical population,. We compared each of the CCRacer tasks with one of these neuropsychological tools and concluded that the tasks are adequate for measuring executive functions in a clinical population. We also found that the frontal lobe plays an important role in abilities such as planning, inhibition and memory updating.
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