Functional brain imaging with positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance
imaging has been used extensively to map regional changes in brain activity. The signal …

“Is there a biology of intelligence which is characteristic of the normal human nervous
system?” Here we review 37 modern neuroimaging studies in an attempt to address this …

Effective mental functioning requires that cognition be protected from emotional conflict due
to interference by task-irrelevant emotionally salient stimuli. The neural mechanisms by …

Brain imaging studies in humans have shown that face processing in several areas is
modulated by the affective significance of faces, particularly with fearful expressions, but …

▪ Abstract Single-unit recording studies in the macaque have carefully documented the
modulatory effects of attention on the response properties of visual cortical neurons …

The subjective experience of one's environment is constructed by interactions among
sensory, cognitive, and affective processes. For centuries, meditation has been thought to …

Despite the impressive complexity and processing power of the human brain, it is severely
capacity limited. Behavioral research has highlighted three major bottlenecks of information …

Attention is both the preparedness for and mental selection of certain aspects of the physical
environment or ideas in one's mind. Several researchers have argued that there might be …

Selective visual attention describes the tendency of visual processing to be confined largely
to stimuli that are relevant to behavior. It is among the most fundamental of cognitive …

Emotion regulation by means of cognitive reappraisal has been widely studied with
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). To date, several meta-analyses of studies …