**RETRACTION NOTICE TO**: THE COMPLEX COGNITIVE SYSTEM OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING: A CONCEPTUAL REVIEW

AGATA MALTESE^1*, FRANCESCO CERRONI^2*, PALMIRA ROMANO², DANIELA RUSSO^2,3, MARGHERITA SALERNO⁴, BEATRICE GALLAI⁵, ROSA MAROTTA⁶, SERENA MARIANNA LAVANO⁶, FRANCESCO LAVANO⁶, GABRIELE TRIPI^7,8

¹Department of Psychological, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy - ²Clinic of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Department of Mental Health, Physical and Preventive Medicine, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy - ³Centro di Riabilitazione La Filanda LARS; Sarno, Italy - ⁴Sciences for Mother and Child Health Promotion, University of Palermo, Italy - ⁵ Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy - ⁶Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy - ⁷Department PROSAMI, University of Palermo, Italy - ⁸Childhood Psychiatric Service for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, CH Chinon, France

Every day we are faced with a variety of situations that require the use of cognitive processes different, such as recognizing and memorizing stimuli, understanding and producing statements, solving problems. In recent decades, cognitive psychology and neuropsychology have made considerable advances in description of these processes and how they can be disrupted as a result of an injury to the nervous system central. However, it is clear that our adaptation to the environment is not limited to perceiving, reading, and speaking. A fundamental aspect of mental life is represented by the need to continuously modulate the use of these cognitive resources to contingent needs according to our goals and goals. It is this type of problem that refers to the expression executive func- tions (EFs). During developmental age Efs change consistently and since age of 8 years many Efs are similar to adults.