For as long as half a century the Simon task–in which participants respond to a nonspatial
stimulus feature while ignoring its position–has represented a very popular tool to study a …

This narrative review addresses the neural bases of two executive functions: criterion
setting, that is, the capacity to flexibly set up and select task rules and associations between …

Response inhibition processes are important for goal-directed behavior and particularly
demanded when it is unlikely to inhibit automatically executed responses. It has been …

Cognitive control resolves conflicts between task-relevant and-irrelevant information to
enable goal-directed behavior. As conflicts can arise from different sources (eg, sensory …

An important aspect of cognitive control is the ability to overcome interference, by boosting
the processing of task-relevant information while suppressing the irrelevant information. This …

Inhibiting responses is a challenge, where the outcome (partly) depends on the situational
context. In everyday situations, response inhibition performance might be altered when …

The modulation of theta frequency activity plays a major role in inhibitory control processes.
However, the relevance of resting theta band activity and of the ability to spontaneously …

Every day, a multitude of interfering sensory inputs needs to be integrated and adequately
processed using response selection processes. Interference effects are typically …

Although previous work has shown that conflict can be detected in the absence of
awareness, it is unknown how different sources of conflict (ie, semantic, response) are …

Working memory capacity (WMC) can predict conflict control ability. Measures of both
abilities are impaired by anxiety, which is often inversely linked with mindfulness. It has been …