The facility with which humans perform and shift among a wide variety of cognitive tasks
seems to indicate a mechanism for entering into a task-dependent mode or set. However …

A fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience is how the human brain self-organizes to
perform tasks. Multiple accounts of this self-organization are currently influential and in this …

To optimize task performance as circumstances unfold, cognitive control mechanisms
configure the brain to prepare for upcoming events through voluntary shifts in task set. A …

Cognitive control (with the closely related concepts of attention control and executive
function) encompasses the collection of processes that are involved in generating and …

We describe an ambitious ongoing study that has been strongly influenced and inspired by
Don Stuss's career-long efforts to identify key cognitive processes that characterize …

Cognitive control is a construct that refers to the set of functions that enable decision-making
and task performance through the representation of task states, goals, and rules. The neural …

The human brain is characterized by a remarkable ability to adapt its information processing
based on current goals. This ability, which is encompassed by the psychological construct of …

How cognitive control is recruited and implemented has become a major focus of
researchers in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Current theories posit that cognitive …

In this introductory article of the special issue of Brain Research, we first present an overview
of some general questions relating to cognitive control. For instance, one of the questions …

Adaptive behavior requires context-sensitive configuration of task-sets that specify time-
varying stimulus–response mappings. Intriguingly, response time costs associated with …