Discoveries over the past two decades demonstrate that regions distributed throughout the
association cortex, often called the default network, are suppressed during tasks that …

Executive functions, or cognitive control, are higher-order cognitive functions needed for
adaptive goal-directed behaviours and are significantly impaired in majority of …

Adult cortical areas consist of specialized cell types and circuits that support unique higher-
order cognitive functions. How this regional diversity develops from an initially uniform …

Motivated control refers to the coordination of behaviour to achieve affectively valenced
outcomes or goals. The study of motivated control traditionally assumes a distinction …

The primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) subserves our highest order cognitive operations, and
yet is tremendously dependent on a precise neurochemical environment for proper …

Naturalistic observations show that decisions to avoid or escape predators occur at different
spatiotemporal scales and that they are supported by different computations and neural …

Importance The behavioral variant of Alzheimer disease (bvAD) is characterized by early
and predominant behavioral deficits caused by AD pathology. This AD phenotype is …

Abstract The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an adverse impact
on the physical and mental health of the public worldwide. In addition to illness in patients …

Numerous brain imaging studies identified a domain-general or “multiple-demand”(MD)
activation pattern accompanying many tasks and may play a core role in cognitive control …

When environments lack compelling goals, humans often let their minds wander to thoughts
with greater personal relevance; however, we currently do not understand how this context …