Historically, neuroscientific research into addiction has emphasized affective and
reinforcement mechanisms as the essential elements underlying the pursuit of drugs, their …

Stimuli that evoke emotions are salient, draw attentional resources, and facilitate
situationally appropriate behavior in complex or conflicting environments. However …

Recent findings have refuted the common assumption that executive control functions of the
prefrontal cortex exclusively operate consciously, suggesting that many, if not all, cognitive …

Reward deficits and associated striatal circuitry disturbances have been implicated in the
onset and progression of major depressive disorder (MDD). However, no studies have been …

Accurately making a decision in the face of incongruent options increases the efficiency of
making similar congruency decisions in the future. Contextual factors like reward can …

Response activation and inhibition are functions fundamental to executive control that are
disrupted in Parkinson disease (PD). We used magnetoencephalography to examine event …

Background: Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) has a high conversion risk to
Alzheimer's disease (AD). The aMCI patients may have only a memory deficit (single …

Background: Cognitive control of brain regions can be determined by the tasks involving the
cognitive control such as the color word Stroop task. Stroop task define the reduction in …

Cognitive control is essential for efficient information processing and behavioral response
under conditions of uncertainty and underlies the broad range of “executive functions.” While …

Humans can flexibly adjust their executive control to resolve conflicts. Conflict adaptation
and conflict resolution are crucial aspects of conflict processing. Functional neuroimaging …