Survival can depend on the ability to change a current course of action to respond to
potentially advantageous or threatening stimuli. This" reorienting" response involves the …

Everyday life requires frequent shifts between cognitive tasks. Research reviewed in this
article probes the control processes that reconfigure mental resources for a change of task …

When people encounter problems in translating their goals into action (eg, failing to get
started, becoming distracted, or falling into bad habits), they may strategically call on …

According to the Cognitive Complexity and Control (CCC) theory, the development of
executive function can be understood in terms of age-related increases in the maximum …

Abstract “Automatic imitation” is a type of stimulus-response compatibility effect in which the
topographical features of task-irrelevant action stimuli facilitate similar, and interfere with …

Starting from the premise that working memory is a system for providing access to
representations for complex cognition, six requirements for a working memory system are …

The theory of event coding (TEC) is a general framework explaining how perceived and
produced events (stimuli and responses) are cognitively represented and how their …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

In this article, literature from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and social cognition is
integrated to discuss the relation between goals, attention, and consciousness. Goals are …

Recent studies have shown that the effects of irrelevant spatial stimulus-response (SR)
correspondence (ie, the Simon effect) occur only after trials in which the stimulus and …