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On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done

David Badre

A cognitive neuroscientist’s tour of executive function — how the brain plans, switches, and resists distraction. The most rigorous popular treatment of “why is it so hard to do the thing.”

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About the author

David Badre is a professor of cognitive, linguistic, and psychological sciences at Brown University and runs the Badre Lab.