There is growing consensus that reward plays an important role in the control of attention.
Until recently, reward was thought to influence attention indirectly by modulating task …

The basal ganglia are equipped with inhibitory and disinhibitory mechanisms that enable a
subject to choose valuable objects and actions. Notably, a value can be determined flexibly …

Why our brains aren't built for media multitasking, and how we can learn to live with
technology in a more balanced way." Brilliant and practical, just what we need in these …

Changes in cortical and striatal function underlie the transition from novel actions to refined
motor skills. How discrete, anatomically defined corticostriatal projections function in vivo to …

Habits are commonly conceptualized as learned associations whereby a stimulus triggers
an associated response,–. We propose that habits may be better understood as a process …

Animals and humans evolved sophisticated nervous systems that endowed them with the
ability to form internal-models or beliefs and make predictions about the future to survive and …

The basal ganglia control body movements, value processing and decision-making. Many
studies have shown that the inputs and outputs of each basal ganglia structure are …

Attention is commonly thought to be important for managing the limited resources available
in sensory areas of the neocortex. Here we present an alternative view that attention arises …

Goal-directed and stimulus-driven factors determine attentional priority through a well
defined dorsal frontal-parietal and ventral temporal-parietal network of brain regions …

Decision making is thought to be guided by the values of alternative options and involve the
accumulation of evidence to an internal bound. However, in natural behavior, evidence …