The multiple-demand (MD) system of the primate brain: mental programs for intelligent behaviour

J Duncan - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2010 - cell.com
A common or multiple-demand (MD) pattern of frontal and parietal activity is associated with
diverse cognitive demands, and with standard tests of fluid intelligence. In intelligent …

Attractors and noise: twin drivers of decisions and multistability

J Braun, M Mattia - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Perceptual decisions are made not only during goal-directed behavior such as choice tasks,
but also occur spontaneously while multistable stimuli are being viewed. In both contexts …

Simple substrates for complex cognition

P Dayan - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2008 - frontiersin.org
Complex cognitive tasks present a range of computational and algorithmic challenges for
neural accounts of both learning and inference. In particular, it is extremely hard to solve …

Bilinearity, rules, and prefrontal cortex

P Dayan - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2007 - frontiersin.org
Humans can be instructed verbally to perform computationally complex cognitive tasks; their
performance then improves relatively slowly over the course of practice. Many skills underlie …