In an age of increasing technology, the possibility that typing on a keyboard will replace
handwriting raises questions about the future usefulness of handwriting skills. Here we …

Orienting of spatial attention is a family of phylogenetically old mechanisms developed to
select information for further processing. Information can be selected via top-down or …

The right middle fontal gyrus (MFG) has been proposed to be a site of convergence of the
dorsal and ventral attention networks, by serving as a circuit-breaker to interrupt ongoing …

An update to the classic text that links neuroscience and human behavior in the context of
therapy. This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has …

Social contact promotes enhanced health and well-being, likely as a function of the social
regulation of emotional responding in the face of various life stressors. For this functional …

Although ventral parietal cortex (VPC) activations can be found in a variety of cognitive
domains, these activations have been typically attributed to cognitive operations specific to …

Inhibitory control and error detection are among the highest evolved human self-monitoring
functions. Attempts in functional neuroimaging to effectively isolate inhibitory motor control …

Improvements in attentional performance are at the core of proposed mechanisms for stress
reduction in mindfulness meditation practices. However, this claim can be questioned …

In macaque monkeys, the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is concerned with the integration of
multimodal information for constructing a spatial representation of the external world (in …

In the macaque monkey ventral premotor cortex (F5),“canonical neurones” are active when
the monkey observes an object and when the monkey grasps that object. In the same …