Brodmann has pioneered structural brain mapping. He considered functional and
pathological criteria for defining cortical areas in addition to cytoarchitecture. Starting from …

Maintaining attention for more than a few seconds is essential for mastering everyday life.
Yet, our ability to stay focused on a particular task is limited, resulting in well-known …

Understanding the amazingly complex human cerebral cortex requires a map (or
parcellation) of its major subdivisions, known as cortical areas. Making an accurate areal …

Abstract Information processing in the cerebral cortex involves interactions among
distributed areas. Anatomical connectivity suggests that certain areas form local hierarchical …

Working memory subsumes the capability to memorize, retrieve and utilize information for a
limited period of time which is essential to many human behaviours. Moreover, impairments …

Over the last decade, many neuroimaging studies have assessed the human brain networks
underlying action observation and imitation using a variety of tasks and paradigms …

The posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) is a central part of the default mode network (DMN) and
part of the structural core of the brain. Although the PCC often shows consistent deactivation …

The supervisory attentional system has been proposed to mediate non-routine, goal-
oriented behaviour by guiding the selection and maintenance of the goal-relevant task …

Stress is present in everyday life in various forms and situations. Two stressors frequently
investigated are physiological and psychosocial stress. Besides similar subjective and …

Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with a profound lack of empathy.
Neuroscientists have associated empathy and its interindividual variation with how strongly …