The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) has a near-ubiquitous presence in the
neuroscience of cognitive control. It has been implicated in a diversity of functions, from …

Highlights•Probabilistic reasoning accounts for executive control in the PFC.•Premotor and
OFC regions subserve action selection in stable environments.•vmPFC & dmPFC infer when …

Highlights•PFC function overcomes key adaptive limitations in reinforcement learning
(RL).•Model-based RL in PFC provides offline planning abilities adjusting online basic …

The first section of the chapter therefore reviews evidence supporting the view that emotion
regulation (ER) in anxiety disorders derives in large part from biological and psychological …

Although gender differences have been identified as a crucial factor for understanding stress‐
related anxiety and associated clinical disorders, the neural mechanisms underlying these …

Social interactions routinely lead to neural activity in a" social brain network" comprising,
among other regions, the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) and the dorsomedial prefrontal …

Our daily life is characterized by multiple response options that need to be cascaded in
order to avoid overstrain of restricted response selection resources. While response …

Many brain areas modulate their activity during vibrotactile tasks. The activity from these
areas may code the stimulus parameters, stimulus perception, or perceptual reports. Here …

This chapter reviews a number of important domains that encompass the intersection
between decision making and cognitive control. It explains a decision‐making framework …

The statistical structure of intrinsic parietal and parieto-frontal connectivity in monkeys was
studied through hierarchical cluster analysis. Based on their inputs, parietal and frontal …