The researchers measured executive functioning in the students involved in the study.

研究人员测量了参与研究的学生的执行功能。

That process — called cognitive inhibition — is linked to better executive functioning.

这个过程被称为认知抑制，与更好的执行功能有关。

Gradually increasing the amount of work time you put in will improve your high level executive functioning.

逐步增加投入工作的时长，可以提升你的高级执行力。

The research has found that students who were most at risk had the most improvements in executive functioning after interacting with therapy dogs.

研究发现，在与治疗犬互动后，风险最大的学生的执行功能得到了最大的改善。

Primarily this is in the executive functioning part of the brain in the hippocampus.

主要是在海马体的执行功能部分。

But now some brain-training platforms like Cognizant have proven powerful in improving brain processing speeds, memory, reasoning and even executive functioning when played repeatedly over time.

但一些大脑训练的平台，如高知特（Cognizant）已证明通过反复玩游戏，将有效改善大脑的处理速度、记忆力、逻辑思维，甚至是执行功能。

It may even increase our risk of cardiovascular disease and of impairing our executive functioning, the very skill sets we need to do our jobs well.

它甚至有可能增加心血管疾病的风险，并且危害我们（对工作记忆、决策、 抽象思考）的管控功能，这却恰恰是在工作中不可或缺的能力。

And she said the stress from the pandemic has really damaged our brains in a way that makes it hard for us to have good executive functioning skills.

她说，大流行带来的压力确实损害了我们的大脑，使我们很难拥有良好的执行功能。

Learning a new language is a really great one that really forces our brain to activate all those parts of the brain that are really important for not just language learning but also code switching and executive functioning.

学习一门新语言是一件非常伟大的事情，它确实迫使我们的大脑激活大脑的所有部分，这些部分不仅对语言学习非常重要，而且对代码转换和执行功能也非常重要。