Numerous brain regions have been shown to have neural correlates of gradually
accumulating evidence for decision-making, but the causal roles of these regions in …

Sustained activity encoding visual working memory representations has been observed in
several cortical areas of primates. Where along the visual pathways this activity emerges …

Decisions are held in memory until enacted, which makes them potentially vulnerable to
distracting sensory input. Gating of information flow from sensory to motor areas could …

Most authors who discuss willpower assume that everyone knows what it is, but our
assumptions differ to such an extent that we talk past each other. We agree that willpower is …

Simultaneous performance of two tasks often leads to performance deficits in the component
tasks. This effect, known as dual-task interference, is thought to be a proof of capacity …

Highlights•In theory, priority maps may be used to guide saccades and covert
attention.•Brain areas LIP, FEF and SC have each been described as a priority map.•We …

Dopamine is required for working memory, but how it modulates the large-scale cortex is
unknown. Here, we report that dopamine receptor density per neuron, measured by …

We review a series of studies exploring distractor suppression. It is often assumed that
preparatory distractor suppression is controlled via top-down mechanisms of attention akin …

Creativity, a multifaceted construct, can be studied in various ways, for example,
investigating phases of the creative process, quality of the creative product, or the impact of …

Computational modeling of brain mechanisms of cognition has largely focused on the
cortex, but recent experiments have shown that higher-order nuclei of the thalamus …