While many brain networks are specialised for processing specific types of information, a
network of frontoparietal regions is engaged by a wide range of cognitive demands. Here …

Learning new rules rapidly and effectively via instructions is ubiquitous in our daily lives, yet
the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms are complex. Using functional magnetic …

Selective attention is a cognitive function that helps filter out unwanted information. Theories
such as the biased competition model (Desimone & Duncan, 1995) explain how attentional …

One of humans' most fundamental cognitive feats is the ability to interpret linguistic
instructions in order to perform novel tasks without any explicit experience with the task. Yet …

Human performance is endowed by neural representations of information that is relevant for
the task, some of which are also activated in a preparatory fashion to optimize later …