ER Kandel, Y Dudai, MR Mayford - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Learning and memory are two of the most magical capabilities of our mind. Learning is the biological process of acquiring new knowledge about the world, and memory is the process …
Classic cognitive theory conceptualizes executive functions as involving multiple specific domains, including initiation, inhibition, working memory, flexibility, planning, and vigilance …
Importance Multiple lines of evidence suggest a deficit in dopamine release in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in schizophrenia. Despite the prevalence of the concept of prefrontal cortical …
E Ophir, C Nass, AD Wagner - Proceedings of the National …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Chronic media multitasking is quickly becoming ubiquitous, although processing multiple incoming streams of information is considered a challenge for human cognition. A series of …
EK Miller, JD Cohen - Annual review of neuroscience, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The prefrontal cortex has long been suspected to play an important role in cognitive control, in the ability to orchestrate thought and action in accordance with internal …
N Cowan - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
Miller (1956) summarized evidence that people can remember about seven chunks in short- term memory (STM) tasks. However, that number was meant more as a rough estimate and …
H Guiney, L Machado - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2013 - Springer
Research suggests that regular aerobic exercise has the potential to improve executive functioning, even in healthy populations. The purpose of this review is to elucidate which …
AM Owen, KM McMillan, AR Laird… - Human brain …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most popular experimental paradigms for functional neuroimaging studies of working memory has been the n‐back task, in which subjects are asked to monitor the …
N Kanwisher - Proceedings of the national academy of …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Is the human mind/brain composed of a set of highly specialized components, each carrying out a specific aspect of human cognition, or is it more of a general-purpose device, in which …