Abstract Concepts of cognitive control (CC) and executive function (EF) are defined in terms
of their relationships with goal-directed behavior versus habits and controlled versus …

For more than 50 years, psychologists and neuroscientists have recognized the importance
of a working memory to coordinate processing when multiple goals are active and to guide …

Although neuroscience has made remarkable progress in understanding the involvement of
prefrontal cortex (PFC) in human memory, the necessity of dorsolateral PFC (dlPFC) for key …

The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded
dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a …

The question of the self has intrigued philosophers and psychologists for a long time. More
recently, distinct concepts of self have also been suggested in neuroscience. However, the …

Most theories of choice assume that decisions derive from an assessment of the future
outcomes of various options and alternatives through some type of cost-benefit analyses …

Cognitive control mechanisms permit memory to be accessed strategically, and so aid in
bringing knowledge to mind that is relevant to current goals and actions. In this review, we …

In speaking and comprehending language, word information is retrieved from memory and
combined into larger units (unification). Unification operations take place in parallel at the …

The term executive function defines complex cognitive processing requiring the co-
ordination of several subprocesses to achieve a particular goal. Neuropsychological …

Cognitive neuroscience research on working memory has been largely motivated by a
standard model that arose from the melding of psychological theory with neuroscience data …