The world as it appears to the viewer is the result of a complex process of inference
performed by the brain. The validity of this apparently counter-intuitive assertion becomes …

Executive Functioning: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practice is the first book to offer
an in-depth, comprehensive, and clinically applicable analysis of executive functioning (EF) …

Aging is accompanied by stereotyped changes in functional brain activations, for example a
cortical shift in activity patterns from posterior to anterior regions is one hallmark revealed by …

Aging typically slows down cognitive processes, specifically those related to perceptual
decisions. However, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying these age-associated …

We examined whether and how the balancing of crossmodal excitation and inhibition affects
intersensory facilitation. A neural network model, comprising lower-order unimodal networks …

The main goal of this review is to summarize and discuss (1) age-dependent structural
reorganization of mammalian visual cortical circuits underlying complex visual behavior …

For sensory cortices to respond reliably to feature stimuli, the balancing of neuronal
excitation and inhibition is crucial. A typical example might be the balancing of phasic …

Variability is a prominent characteristic of cognitive brain function. For instance, different
trials of presentation of the same stimulus yield higher variability in its perception: subjects …

Everyday conversations take place in environments with some level of background noise.
An aging-related decrease in the ability to understand speech in the presence of noise …

Perception of supraliminal stimuli might in general be reflected in bursts of action potentials
(spikes), and their memory traces could be formed through spike-timing-dependent plasticity …