▪ Abstract The prefrontal cortex has long been suspected to play an important role in
cognitive control, in the ability to orchestrate thought and action in accordance with internal …

Historically, the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system has been implicated in
arousal, but recent findings suggest that this system plays a more complex and specific role …

Emotional arousal enhances perception and memory of high-priority information but impairs
processing of other information. Here, we propose that, under arousal, local glutamate levels …

A neglected question regarding cognitive control is how control processes might detect
situations calling for their involvement. The authors propose here that the demand for control …

One hypothesis concerning the human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is that it
functions, in part, to signal the occurrence of conflicts in information processing, thereby …

This is a Classic Edition of Adrian Wells and Gerald Matthews' award-winning textbook on
attention and emotion, which now includes new section introductions. The book won the …

The time course of perceptual choice is discussed in a model of gradual, leaky, stochastic,
and competitive information accumulation in nonlinear decision units. Special cases of the …

In this article, the authors consider optimal decision making in two-alternative forced-choice
(TAFC) tasks. They begin by analyzing 6 models of TAFC decision making and show that all …

According to a recent theory, anterior cingulate cortex is sensitive to response conflict, the
coactivation of mutually incompatible responses. The present research develops this theory …

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), on the medial surface of the frontal lobes of the brain, is
widely believed to be involved in the regulation of attention,. Beyond this, however, its …