Human frontal cortex is commonly described as being insensitive to sensory modality,
however several recent studies cast doubt on this view. Our laboratory previously reported …

Functions in higher-order brain regions are the source of extensive debate. Past trends have
been to describe the brain in terms of a set of functional modules, especially posterior …

In this brief review, we argue that attention operates along a hierarchy from peripheral
through central mechanisms. We further argue that these mechanisms are distinguished not …

Working memory (WM) supports the persistent representation of transient sensory
information. Visual and auditory stimuli place different demands on WM and recruit different …

Up to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which
focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of what may happen in the …

The umbrella-term 'executive functions'(EF) includes various domain-general, goal-directed
cognitive abilities responsible for behavioral self-regulation. The influential unity and …

Crossmodal selective attention was investigated in a cued task switching paradigm using
bimodal visual and auditory stimulation. A cue indicated the imperative modality. Three …

There are three views of cognitive representation: the amodal, strong-embodiment, and
weak-embodiment views of cognition. The present research provides support for the weak …

Although humans show a remarkable ability to make rapid and accurate decisions in novel
situations, it is surprisingly difficult to observe transferable benefits when training decision …

Task-switching training was shown to improve performance not only for the trained tasks (ie,
reduced performance costs resulting from the task switches), but also for structurally similar …