Oscillatory control over representational states in working memory

IEJ de Vries, HA Slagter, CNL Olivers - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
In the visual world, attention is guided by perceptual goals activated in visual working
memory (VWM). However, planning multiple-task sequences also requires VWM to store …

[HTML][HTML] Midfrontal theta activity in psychiatric illness: an index of cognitive vulnerabilities across disorders

G McLoughlin, M Gyurkovics, J Palmer, S Makeig - Biological Psychiatry, 2022 - Elsevier
There is an urgent need to identify the mechanisms that contribute to atypical thinking and
behavior associated with psychiatric illness. Behavioral and brain measures of cognitive …

Closing the loop in psychiatric deep brain stimulation: physiology, psychometrics, and plasticity

AS Widge - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2024 - nature.com
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an invasive approach to precise modulation of
psychiatrically relevant circuits. Although it has impressive results in open-label psychiatric …

Anterior cingulate cortex signals the need to control intrusive thoughts during motivated forgetting

M Crespo-García, Y Wang, M Jiang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
How do people limit awareness of unwanted memories? When such memories intrude, a
control process engages the right DLPFC (rDLPFC) to inhibit hippocampal activity and stop …

Neural sources of prediction errors detect unrealistic VR interactions

L Gehrke, P Lopes, M Klug, S Akman… - Journal of neural …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Neural interfaces hold significant promise to implicitly track user experience. Their
application in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) simulations is especially favorable as it …

Brain-to-brain coupling in the gamma-band as a marker of shared intentionality

P Barraza, A Pérez, E Rodríguez - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cooperation and competition are two ways of social interaction keys to life in society. Recent
EEG-based hyperscanning studies reveal that cooperative and competitive interactions …

Updating the relationship of the Ne/ERN to task-related behavior: A brief review and suggestions for future research

SB LoTemplio, CL Lopes, AS McDonnell… - Frontiers in Human …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The error negativity/error-related negativity (Ne/ERN) is one of the most well-studied event-
related potential (ERP) components in the electroencephalography (EEG) literature …

Contextual adaptation of cognitive flexibility is driven by task-and item-level learning

A Siqi-Liu, T Egner - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 - Springer
Adaptive behavior requires finding, and adjusting, an optimal tradeoff between focusing on a
current task-set (cognitive stability) and updating that task-set when the environment …

Brain stimulation over dorsomedial prefrontal cortex modulates effort-based decision making

A Soutschek, L Nadporozhskaia, P Christian - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2022 - Springer
Deciding whether to engage in strenuous mental activities requires trading-off the potential
benefits against the costs of mental effort, but it is unknown which brain rhythms are causally …

[HTML][HTML] Frontal-midline theta reflects different mechanisms associated with proactive and reactive control of inhibition

MS Messel, L Raud, PK Hoff, J Stubberud, RJ Huster - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Reactive control of response inhibition is associated with a right-lateralised cortical network,
as well as frontal-midline theta (FM-theta) activity measured at the scalp. However, response …