Visual attention enables us to selectively prioritize or suppress information in the
environment. Prominent models concerned with the control of visual attention differentiate …

Research on cognitive control and executive function has long recognized the relevance of
motivational factors. Recently, however, the topic has come increasingly to center stage, with …

The primary goal of the Human Connectome Project (HCP) is to delineate the typical
patterns of structural and functional connectivity in the healthy adult human brain. However …

Recent years have seen a rejuvenation of interest in studies of motivation–cognition
interactions arising from many different areas of psychology and neuroscience. The present …

The right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) is frequently associated with different capacities
that to shift attention to unexpected stimuli (reorienting of attention) and to understand …

In spite of its familiar phenomenology, the mechanistic basis for mental effort remains poorly
understood. Although most researchers agree that mental effort is aversive and stems from …

Visual selective attention is the brain function that modulates ongoing processing of retinal
input in order for selected representations to gain privileged access to perceptual …

How does motivation interact with cognitive control during challenging behavioral
conditions? Here, we investigated the interactions between motivation and cognition during …

Cognitive neuroscience investigations of self-experience have mainly focused on the mental
attribution of features to the self (self-related processing). In this paper, we highlight another …

The review first discusses componential explanations of automaticity, which specify
non/automaticity features (eg, un/controlled, un/conscious, non/efficient, fast/slow) and their …