The social transmission of metacontrol policies: Mechanisms underlying the interpersonal transfer of persistence and flexibility

B Hommel, LS Colzato - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Humans often face binary cognitive-control dilemmas, with the choice between persistence
and flexibility being a crucial one. Tackling these dilemmas requires metacontrol, ie, the …

Increased engagement of the cognitive control network associated with music training in children during an fMRI Stroop task

M Sachs, J Kaplan, A Der Sarkissian, A Habibi - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Playing a musical instrument engages various sensorimotor processes and draws on
cognitive capacities collectively termed executive functions. However, while music training is …

[HTML][HTML] Computational models of anterior cingulate cortex: At the crossroads between prediction and effort

E Vassena, CB Holroyd, WH Alexander - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In the last two decades the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has become one of the most
investigated areas of the brain. Extensive neuroimaging evidence suggests countless …

Conflict adaptation: Past, present, and future of the congruency sequence effect as an index of cognitive control

T Egner - The Wiley handbook of cognitive control, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of distractors on the processing of target information is reduced on trials that
follow an incongruent trial compared to those that follow a congruent trial, leading to a …

Cueing cognitive flexibility: Item-specific learning of switch readiness.

YC Chiu, T Egner - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The rich behavioral repertoire of the human species derives from our ability to flexibly
reconfigure processing strategies (task sets) in response to changing requirements. This …

Binding by random bursts: A computational model of cognitive control

T Verguts - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
A neural synchrony model of cognitive control is proposed. It construes cognitive control as a
higher-level action to synchronize lower-level brain areas. Here, a controller prefrontal area …

On-chip surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy using nanosphere-lithography patterned antennas on silicon nitride waveguides

PC Wuytens, AG Skirtach, R Baets - Optics Express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
A hybrid integration of nanoplasmonic antennas with silicon nitride waveguides enables
miniaturized chips for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy at visible and near-infrared …

The role of affective evaluation in conflict adaptation: An LRP study

K Fröber, B Stürmer, R Frömer, G Dreisbach - Brain and Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Conflict between incompatible response tendencies is typically followed by control
adjustments aimed at diminishing subsequent conflicts, a phenomenon often called conflict …

Cognitive control and reward

RM Krebs, MG Woldorff - The Wiley handbook of cognitive …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cognitive control can be considered as a set of functions that enable people to adapt to
changing demands in their environment and to optimise the behaviour accordingly. The …

Beyond trial-by-trial adaptation: A quantification of the time scale of cognitive control.

B Aben, T Verguts… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The idea that adaptation to stimulus or response conflict can operate over different time
scales takes a prominent position in various theories and models of cognitive control. The …