Flexible behavior requires guidance not only by sensations that are available immediately
but also by relevant mental contents carried forward through working memory. Therefore …

According to the grounded perspective, cognition emerges from the interaction of classic
cognitive processes with the modalities, the body, and the environment. Rather than being …

Human action control relies on representations that integrate perception and action, but the
relevant research is scattered over various experimental paradigms and the theorizing is …

Numerous studies showed decreased performance in situations that require multiple tasks
or actions relative to appropriate control conditions. Because humans often engage in such …

According to cognitive psychology and related disciplines, the development of complex
problem-solving behaviour in biological agents depends on hierarchical cognitive …

Goals play a central role in human cognition. However, computational theories of learning
and decision-making often take goals as given. Here, we review key empirical findings …

Adaptive behaviour requires the ability to focus on a task and protect it from distraction
(cognitive stability) and to rapidly switch tasks when circumstances change (cognitive …

We review a theory of homeostatic regulation and adaptive behavioural control within the
Active Inference framework. Our aim is to connect two research streams that are usually …

Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

Abstract Information processing in the brain is governed by oscillatory activity. Activity
oscillations in specific frequency bands (theta, alpha, beta and gamma) have been …