Strong Memory, Weak Control: An Empirical Study of Executive Functioning in LLMs

Karin de Langis, Jong Inn Park, Khanh Chi Le, Andreas Schramm, Andrew Elfenbein, Michael C. Mensink, Dongyeop Kang. Strong Memory, Weak Control: An Empirical Study of Executive Functioning in LLMs. In Vera Demberg, Kentaro Inui, Lluís Marquez, editors, Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2026 - Volume 1: Long Papers, Rabat, Morocco, March 24-29, 2026. pages 5971-5986, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. [doi]

@inproceedings{LangisPLSEMK26,
  title = {Strong Memory, Weak Control: An Empirical Study of Executive Functioning in LLMs},
  author = {Karin de Langis and Jong Inn Park and Khanh Chi Le and Andreas Schramm and Andrew Elfenbein and Michael C. Mensink and Dongyeop Kang},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.281/},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/LangisPLSEMK26},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {5971-5986},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2026 - Volume 1: Long Papers, Rabat, Morocco, March 24-29, 2026},
  editor = {Vera Demberg and Kentaro Inui and Lluís Marquez},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  isbn = {979-8-89176-380-7},
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