Cognitive control, a facet of executive functioning, is engaged under high conflict and enables us to flexibly regulate behaviors by suppressing automatic, but contextually irrelevant behaviors, and produce appropriate-goal relevant actions instead. Executive deficits are associ…
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Task switching produces a number of reliable behavioural measures, the main focus of interest here being 'switch cost', the increase in response time when switching between tasks as opposed to performing them separately. Switch costs are typically measured between two tasks and …
A key question in the cognitive control literature involves determining the executive functions that mediate cognitive flexibility (CF) and the brain regions that support them. Recent perspectives have offered persuasive evidence suggesting that CF may be guided by low-level ass…
The ability to guide behaviors and allocate cognitive resources in service of goals or rules, termed cognitive control, is an integral part of daily activities, and worse cognitive control is associated with a range of poor outcomes. Reward-driven responses can either support co…