The frontal lobe's executive functions include goal-directed behavior, intentions, and cognitive control.

“when we're talking about the frontal loes and talking about it's you know involvement higher level cognitiv abilties real talking about the prefrontal cortex and this is what's considered sort of the highest level of Cortex in the brain and so yeah when you think when you think about it people assign it all sorts of functions almost every function you think of people have sort of put into the frontal lows but I think what we've all kind of uh moved towards is this idea of executive function this abil this ability to to plan to organize uh to really transfer our thoughts you know into an action and really to be guided by goals and and intentions and not be kind of take you know kind of ruled by sort of just automatic behaviors”