Pupil dilation as an index of effort in cognitive control tasks: A review

P Van der Wel, H Van Steenbergen - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2018 - Springer
Pupillometry research has experienced an enormous revival in the last two decades. Here
we briefly review the surge of recent studies on task-evoked pupil dilation in the context of …

Rationalizing constraints on the capacity for cognitive control

S Musslick, JD Cohen - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
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 …

Resource-rational analysis: Understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources

F Lieder, TL Griffiths - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2020 - cambridge.org
Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

Anxiety and working memory capacity: A meta-analysis and narrative review.

TP Moran - Psychological bulletin, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory.

K Oberauer, S Lewandowsky, E Awh… - Psychological …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Working memory and executive function decline across normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease

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 …

Theta and alpha oscillations are traveling waves in the human neocortex

H Zhang, AJ Watrous, A Patel, J Jacobs - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
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 …

The psychology experiment building language (PEBL) and PEBL test battery

ST Mueller, BJ Piper - Journal of neuroscience methods, 2014 - Elsevier
Background We briefly describe the Psychology Experiment Building Language (PEBL), an
open source software system for designing and running psychological experiments. New …

[HTML][HTML] The theta-gamma neural code

JE Lisman, O Jensen - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
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 …

Effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation on working memory: a systematic review and meta-analysis of findings from healthy and neuropsychiatric …

AT Hill, PB Fitzgerald, KE Hoy - Brain stimulation, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Several studies have trialled anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-
tDCS) for the enhancement of working memory (WM) in both healthy and neuropsychiatric …