Reaction time is believed to be a good indicator of the speed and efficiency of mental
processes and is a ubiquitous variable in the behavioral sciences. Despite this popularity …

In many circumstances alternative courses of action and thoughts have to be inhibited to
allow the emergence of goal-directed behavior. However, this has not been the accepted …

Cognitive tasks that produce reliable and robust effects at the group level often fail to yield
reliable and valid individual differences. An ongoing debate among attention researchers is …

Impulsivity critically relates to many psychiatric disorders. Given the multifaceted construct
that impulsivity represents, defining core aspects of impulsivity is vital for the assessment …

Psychiatry faces fundamental challenges with regard to mechanistically guided differential
diagnosis, as well as prediction of clinical trajectories and treatment response of individual …

For more than 2 decades, researchers have debated the nature of cognitive control in the
guidance of visual attention. Stimulus-driven theories claim that salient stimuli automatically …

There have been many attempts to account theoretically for the effects of anxiety on
cognitive performance. This article focuses on two theories based on insights from cognitive …

Acting in accord with long-term goals requires control of interfering impulses, the success of
which depends on several different processes. Using a structural-equation modeling …

The concept of “inhibition” is widely used in synaptic, circuit, and systems neuroscience,
where it has a clear meaning because it is clearly observable. The concept is also …

Planning and executing volitional actions in the face of conflicting habitual responses is a
critical aspect of human behavior. At the core of the interplay between these 2 control …