A hallmark of primate, and particularly human, behavior is cognitive control, the ability to
integrate information from a multitude of sources and use that information to flexibly guide …

Cognitive control refers to an ensemble of mechanisms that constrain our thoughts and
responses in accordance with our goals. Functional brain imaging studies have provided …

The prefrontal cortex exerts top-down influences on several aspects of higher-order
cognition by functioning as a filtering mechanism that biases bottom-up sensory information …

Working memory refers to a system involved in the online maintenance and manipulation of
information in the absence of external input. Due to the importance of working memory in …

Organisms operate within both a perceptual domain of objects and events, and a mnemonic
domain of past experiences and future goals. Each domain requires a deliberate selection of …

Cognitive control (with the closely related concepts of attention control and executive
function) encompasses the collection of processes that are involved in generating and …

Studies of attention and working memory address the fundamental limits in our ability to
encode and maintain behaviorally relevant information, processes that are critical for goal …

A central role for control processes in long-term memory is apparent when one considers
that there is far more information available in memory than can be accessed at any single …

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 …

The facility with which humans perform and shift among a wide variety of cognitive tasks
seems to indicate a mechanism for entering into a task-dependent mode or set. However …