Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit diminished visual engagement to
environmental stimuli. Aberrant attentional function provides an explanation by reduced …

Brain stimulation approaches are important to gain causal mechanistic insights into the
relevance of functional brain regions and/or neurophysiological systems for human cognitive …

The ability to exert cognitive control is a major function of the prefrontal cortex, the efficiency
of which depends on the phasic release of norepinephrine (NE) at particular time points …

Response inhibition processes are important for goal-directed behavior and particularly
demanded when it is unlikely to inhibit automatically executed responses. It has been …

Everyday tasks and goal-directed behavior involve the maintenance and continuous
updating of information in working memory (WM). WM gating reflects switches between …

The ability to inhibit a prepotent response is a crucial prerequisite of goal-directed behavior.
So far, research on response inhibition has mainly examined these processes when there is …

Inhibition of inappropriate behavior is relevant in many everyday situations. Nevertheless,
the mechanisms that induce response inhibition based on sensory information and what …

It is known that sensory signals sustain the background discharge of the ascending reticular
activating system (ARAS) which includes the noradrenergic locus coeruleus (LC) neurons …

Many everyday choices are based on personal, subjective preferences. When choosing
between two options, we often feel conflicted, especially when trading off costs and benefits …

Several lines of evidence suggest that there is a close interrelation between the degree of
noise in neural circuits and the activity of the norepinephrine (NE) system, yet the precise …