Efficient foraging is essential to survival and depends on frontal cortex in mammals.
Because of its role in psychiatric disorders, frontal cortex and its contributions to reward …

Despite being an intensive area of research, the function of the anterior cingulate cortex
(ACC) remains somewhat of a mystery. Human imaging studies implicate the ACC in various …

Controlling behavior to flexibly achieve desired goals depends on the ability to monitor one's
own performance. It is unknown how performance monitoring can be both flexible, to support …

Historically, the study of patients with spatial neglect has provided fundamental insights into
the neural basis of spatial attention. However, lesion mapping studies have been …

Becoming aware of one's own states is a fundamental aspect for self-monitoring, allowing us
to adjust our beliefs of the world to the changing context. Previous evidence points out to the …

The neurobiological basis of learning is reflected in adaptations of brain structure, network
organization and energy metabolism. However, it is still unknown how different neuroplastic …

Motor awareness is a complex, multifaceted construct involving the awareness of both (i)
one's motor state while executing a movement or remaining still and (ii) one's motor abilities …

Medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) interacts with distributed networks that give rise to goal-
directed behavior through afferent and efferent connections with multiple thalamic nuclei …

The interplay between task-relevant and task-irrelevant information may induce conflicts that
impair behavioral performance, aka behavioral congruency effects. The neuronal …

In 2014, we participated in a special issue of Frontiers examining the neural processing of
appetitive and aversive events. Specifically, we reviewed brain areas that contribute to the …