Recent experimental studies and theoretical models have begun to address the challenge of
establishing a causal link between subjective conscious experience and measurable …

As Titchener pointed out more than one hundred years ago, attention is at the center of the
psychological enterprise. Attention research investigates how voluntary control and …

When performing tasks, humans are thought to adopt task sets that configure moment-to-
moment data processing. Recently developed mixed blocked/event-related designs allow …

All cortical and thalamic levels of sensory processing are subject to powerful top-down
influences, the shaping of lower-level processes by more complex information. New findings …

We suspect that people have an everyday theory of mind because they explain and
frequently talk about the behaviour of others and themselves in terms of beliefs and desires …

The contribution of anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) to human cognition remains unclear. The
rostral (rACC) and dorsal (dACC) ACC cortex are implicated in tasks that require increased …

A task set is a configuration of cognitive processes that is actively maintained for subsequent
task performance. Single-unit and brain-imaging studies have identified the neural …

Even in the absence of sensory inputs, cortical and thalamic neurons can show structured
patterns of ongoing spontaneous activity, whose origins and functional significance are not …

From its discovery in the early 1990s until this day, the error-related negativity (ERN)
remains the most widely investigated electrophysiological index of cortical error processing …

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we tested whether unconscious information
can influence the cognitive control system in the human prefrontal cortex. Volunteers had to …