This review appraises electroencephalograph (EEG) approaches to cognitive workload
evaluation, focussing on the measurement of event-related potentials (ERPs) in single task …

Schizophrenia is a major mental disorder that affects approximately 1% of the population
worldwide. Cognitive deficits are a key feature of schizophrenia and a primary cause of long …

While previous research has suggested that music training is associated with improvements
in various cognitive and linguistic skills, the mechanisms mediating or underlying these …

When one encounters a novel stimulus this sets off a cascade of brain responses, activating
several neuromodulatory systems. As a consequence novelty has a wide range of effects on …

A body of laboratory work is reviewed suggesting that auditory distraction comes in two
functionally distinct forms. Interference‐by‐process is produced when the involuntary …

We investigated the interplay between inhibition and updating, two executive working
memory (WM) functions. We applied a novel task paradigm consisting of flanker stimuli …

Two fundamental research questions have driven attention research in the past: One
concerns whether selection of relevant information among competing, irrelevant, information …

Numerous studies have demonstrated that rare and unexpected changes in an otherwise
repetitive or structured sound sequence ineluctably break through selective attention and …

Previous work focused on cognitive workload assessment suggests EEG spectral content
and component amplitudes of the event-related potential (ERP) waveform may index mental …

Unexpected auditory stimuli are potent distractors, able to break through selective attention
and disrupt performance in an unrelated visual task. This study examined the processing …