Visual attention enables us to selectively prioritize or suppress information in the
environment. Prominent models concerned with the control of visual attention differentiate …

Research on cognitive control and executive function has long recognized the relevance of
motivational factors. Recently, however, the topic has come increasingly to center stage, with …

Recent years have seen a rejuvenation of interest in studies of motivation–cognition
interactions arising from many different areas of psychology and neuroscience. The present …

Inhibiting unwanted thoughts, actions and emotions figures centrally in daily life, and the
prefrontal cortex (PFC) is widely viewed as a source of this inhibitory control. We argue that …

Neuroimaging studies have utilized two primary tasks to assess motor response inhibition, a
major form of inhibitory control: the Go/NoGo (GNG) task and the Stop-Signal Task (SST). It …

Addiction to drugs is a major contemporary public health issue, characterized by
maladaptive behavior to obtain and consume an increasing amount of drugs at the expense …

Many people struggle to control their use of digital devices. However, our understanding of
the design mechanisms that support user self-control remains limited. In this paper, we make …

Mindfulness is theorised to improve attention regulation and other cognitive processes. This
systematic review examines whether 8-week standardised and manualised mindfulness …

A PERSPECTIVE ON THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF DUAL PROCESS MODELS
Page 1 Overview Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all …

Background Stopping a manual response requires suppression of the primary motor cortex
(M1) and has been linked to activation of the striatum. Here, we test three hypotheses …