Humans are remarkably limited in:(i) how many control-dependent tasks they can execute simultaneously, and (ii) how intensely they can focus on a single task. These limitations are …
Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …
Cognitive deficits are now widely recognized to be an important component of anxiety. In particular, anxiety is thought to restrict the capacity of working memory by competing with …
Any mature field of research in psychology—such as short-term/working memory—is characterized by a wealth of empirical findings. It is currently unrealistic to expect a theory to …
AM Kirova, RB Bays, S Lagalwar - BioMed research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease marked by deficits in episodic memory, working memory (WM), and executive function. Examples of executive …
Human cognition requires the coordination of neural activity across widespread brain networks. Here, we describe a new mechanism for large-scale coordination in the human …
Background We briefly describe the Psychology Experiment Building Language (PEBL), an open source software system for designing and running psychological experiments. New …
Theta and gamma frequency oscillations occur in the same brain regions and interact with each other, a process called cross-frequency coupling. Here, we review evidence for the …
Background Several studies have trialled anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a- tDCS) for the enhancement of working memory (WM) in both healthy and neuropsychiatric …