Author(s): van den Bos W; Bruckner R; Nassar MR; Mata R; Eppinger B;

In recent years, the application of computational modeling in studies on age-related changes in decision making and learning has gained in popularity. One advantage of computational models is that they provide access to latent variables that cannot be directly observed from behavior. In combination with experimental manipulations, these latent variables c ...

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Author(s): Brignol A; Paas A; Sotelo-Castro L; St-Onge D; Beltrame G; Coffey EBJ;

Cognitive neuroscience has considerable untapped potential to translate our understanding of brain function into applications that maintain, restore, or enhance human cognition. Complex, real-world phenomena encountered in daily life, professional contexts, and in the arts, can also be a rich source of information for better understanding cognition, which ...

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Author(s): Roque PS; Thörn Perez C; Hooshmandi M; Wong C; Eslamizade MJ; Heshmati S; Brown N; Sharma V; Lister KC; Goyon VM; Neagu-Lund L; Shen C; Daccache N; Sato H; Sato T; Mogil JS; Nader K; Gkogkas CG; Iordanova MD; Prager-Khoutorsky M; McBride ...

Repeated or prolonged, but not short-term, general anesthesia during the early postnatal period causes long-lasting impairments in memory formation in various species. The mechanisms underlying long-lasting impairment in cognitive function are poorly understood. Here, we show that repeated genera ...

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Author(s): Pepin AB; Harel Y; O' Byrne J; Mageau G; Dietrich A; Jerbi K;

Creativity is a highly valued and beneficial skill that empirical research typically probes using "divergent thinking" (DT) tasks such as problem solving and novel idea generation. Here, in contrast, we examine the perceptual aspect of creativity by asking whether creative individuals are more likely to perceive recognizable forms in ambiguous stimuli -a ...

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Author(s): Nicolas J; King BR; Levesque D; Lazzouni L; Coffey EBJ; Swinnen S; Doyon J; Carrier J; Albouy G;

Targeted memory reactivation (TMR) during post-learning sleep is known to enhance motor memory consolidation but the underlying neurophysiological processes remain unclear. Here, we confirm the beneficial effect of auditory TMR on motor performance. At the neural level, TMR enhanced slow wave (SW ...

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Author(s): Pallikaras V; Shizgal P;

Deep-brain stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle (MFB) can provide effective, enduring relief of treatment-resistant depression. Panksepp provided an explanatory framework: the MFB constitutes the core of the neural circuitry subserving the anticipation and pursuit of rewards: the "SEEKING" system. On that view, the SEEKING system is hypoactive in de ...

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Author(s): Johannes Bruder

This paper analyzes notions and models of optimized cognition emerging at the intersections of psychology, neuroscience, and computing. What I somewhat polemically call the algorithms of mindfulness describes an ideal that determines algorithmic techniques of the self, geared at emotional resilience and creative cognition. A reframing of rest, exemplified ...

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Author(s): Arsalan Rahimabadi

Considering the reaction schemes (20) and (21) in Fornari et al., 2020, the fragmentation terms Fi (Eq. (22) in Fornari et al., 2020) are not correct. Thus, the fragmentation terms Fi (Eq. (12) in Fornari et al., 2020) are also incorrect when the reaction schemes (10) and (11) in Fornari et al., 2020 are taken into account. Here, the correct equations wil ...

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Author(s): Paquola C; Royer J; Lewis LB; Lepage C; Glatard T; Wagstyl K; DeKraker J; Toussaint PJ; Valk SL; Collins DL; Khan A; Amunts K; Evans AC; Dickscheid T; Bernhardt BC;

Neuroimaging stands to benefit from emerging ultrahigh-resolution 3D histological atlases of the human brain; the first of which is 'BigBrain'. Here, we review recent methodological advances for the integration of BigBrain with multi-modal neuroimaging and introduce a toolbox, 'BigBra ...

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Author(s): Lafferty CK; Christinck TD; Britt JP;

Improvements in all-optical means of monitoring and manipulating neural activity have generated new ways of studying psychiatric disease. The combination of calcium imaging techniques with optogenetics to concurrently record and manipulate neural activity has been used to create new disease models that link distinct circuit abnormalities to specific disea ...

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Author(s): Eppinger B; Goschke T; Musslick S;

Research in the past decades shed light on the different mechanisms that underlie our capacity for cognitive control. However, the meta-level processes that regulate cognitive control itself remain poorly understood. Following the terminology from artificial intelligence, meta-control can be defined as a collection of mechanisms that (a) monitor the progr ...

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