We review the central tenets and neuroanatomical basis of the global neuronal workspace
(GNW) hypothesis, which attempts to account for the main scientific observations regarding …

Cognitive control, the ability to orchestrate behavior in accord with our goals, depends on
the prefrontal cortex. These cognitive functions are heavily influenced by the …

The brain has the ability to flexibly perform many tasks, but the underlying mechanism
cannot be elucidated in traditional experimental and modeling studies designed for one task …

Kraepelin, in his early descriptions of schizophrenia (SZ), characterized the illness as having
“an orchestra without a conductor.” Kraepelin further speculated that this “conductor” was …

What happens to memories as days, weeks and years go by has long been a fundamental
question in neuroscience and psychology. For decades, researchers have attempted to …

Cognition can be conceptualized as a set of algorithmic control functions whose real-time
deployment determines how an organism stores and uses information to guide thought and …

The curse of dimensionality plagues models of reinforcement learning and decision making.
The process of abstraction solves this by constructing variables describing features shared …

The mediodorsal thalamus (MD) shares reciprocal connectivity with the prefrontal cortex
(PFC), and decreased MD–PFC connectivity is observed in schizophrenia patients. Patients …

The ability to behave in ways that benefit other individuals' well-being is among the most
celebrated human characteristics crucial for social cohesiveness. Across mammalian …

Working memory—the ability to maintain and manipulate information over a period of
seconds—is a core component of higher cognitive functions. The storage capacity of …