Sustaining attention to simple tasks: a meta-analytic review of the neural mechanisms of vigilant attention.

R Langner, SB Eickhoff - Psychological bulletin, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Maintaining attention for more than a few seconds is essential for mastering everyday life.
Yet, our ability to stay focused on a particular task is limited, resulting in well-known …

Physiological markers of motor inhibition during human behavior

J Duque, I Greenhouse, L Labruna, RB Ivry - Trends in neurosciences, 2017 - cell.com
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies in humans have shown that many
behaviors engage processes that suppress excitability within the corticospinal tract …

Time and cognitive load in working memory.

P Barrouillet, S Bernardin, S Portrat… - Journal of …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
According to the time-based resource-sharing model (P. Barrouillet, S. Bernardin, & V.
Camos, 2004), the cognitive load a given task involves is a function of the proportion of time …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for a hierarchical organization of the prefrontal cortex

D Badre, M D'Esposito - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2007 - direct.mit.edu
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is central to flexible and organized action. Recent theoretical
and empirical results suggest that the rostro-caudal axis of the frontal lobes may reflect a …

Motor planning, imagery, and execution in the distributed motor network: a time-course study with functional MRI

T Hanakawa, MA Dimyan, M Hallett - Cerebral cortex, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Activation of motor-related areas has consistently been found during various motor imagery
tasks and is regarded as the central mechanism generating motor imagery. However, the …

Motor learning in man: a review of functional and clinical studies

U Halsband, RK Lange - Journal of Physiology-Paris, 2006 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews results of clinical and functional imaging studies which investigated the
time-course of cortical and subcortical activation during the acquisition of motor a skill …

Domain general and domain preferential brain regions associated with different types of task switching: A meta‐analysis

C Kim, SE Cilles, NF Johnson… - Human brain mapping, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
One of our highest evolved functions as human beings is our capacity to switch between
multiple tasks effectively. A body of research has identified a distributed frontoparietal …

Common and distinct mechanisms of cognitive flexibility in prefrontal cortex

C Kim, NF Johnson, SE Cilles… - Journal of Neuroscience, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
The human ability to flexibly alternate between tasks represents a central component of
cognitive control. Neuroimaging studies have linked task switching with a diverse set of …

Dissociating the role of prefrontal and premotor cortices in controlling inhibitory mechanisms during motor preparation

J Duque, L Labruna, S Verset, E Olivier… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Top-down control processes are critical to select goal-directed actions in flexible
environments. In humans, these processes include two inhibitory mechanisms that operate …

Functionally specific reorganization in human premotor cortex

J O'Shea, H Johansen-Berg, D Trief, S Göbel… - Neuron, 2007 - cell.com
After unilateral stroke, the dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) in the intact hemisphere is often
more active during movement of an affected limb. Whether this contributes to motor recovery …