The human brain has the impressive capacity to adapt how it processes information to high-
level goals. While it is known that these cognitive control skills are malleable and can be …

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant computational paradigm for modeling
psychological and neural aspects of affectively charged decision-making tasks. RL is …

Humans are remarkably limited in:(i) how many control-dependent tasks they can execute
simultaneously, and (ii) how intensely they can focus on a single task. These limitations are …

Aversive motivation plays a prominent role in driving individuals to exert cognitive control.
However, the complexity of behavioral responses attributed to aversive incentives creates …

Accounts of decision-making and its neural substrates have long posited the operation of
separate, competing valuation systems in the control of choice behavior. Recent theoretical …

This article considers the cognitive architecture of human meta-reasoning: that is,
metacognition concerning one's own reasoning and decision-making. The view we defend …

Cognitive control covers a broad range of cognitive functions, but its research and theories
typically remain tied to a single domain. Here we outline and review an associative learning …

Abstract “Cognitive control” describes endogenous guidance of behavior in situations where
routine stimulus-response associations are suboptimal for achieving a desired goal. The …

A hallmark of adaptation in humans and other animals is our ability to control how we think
and behave across different settings. Research has characterized the various forms …

The prefrontal cortex exerts top-down influences on several aspects of higher-order
cognition by functioning as a filtering mechanism that biases bottom-up sensory information …