False memories with age: Neural and cognitive underpinnings

AL Devitt, DL Schacter - Neuropsychologia, 2016 - Elsevier
As we age we become increasingly susceptible to memory distortions and inaccuracies.
Over the past decade numerous neuroimaging studies have attempted to illuminate the …

Cognitive control as a double-edged sword

T Amer, KL Campbell, L Hasher - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2016 - cell.com
Cognitive control, the ability to limit attention to goal-relevant information, aids performance
on a wide range of laboratory tasks. However, there are many day-to-day functions which …

Attention is spontaneously biased toward regularities

J Zhao, N Al-Aidroos… - Psychological …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Knowledge about regularities in the environment can be used to facilitate perception,
memory, and language acquisition. Given this usefulness, we hypothesized that statistically …

The necessity of the medial temporal lobe for statistical learning

AC Schapiro, E Gregory, B Landau… - Journal of cognitive …, 2014 - direct.mit.edu
The sensory input that we experience is highly patterned, and we are experts at detecting
these regularities. Although the extraction of such regularities, or statistical learning (SL), is …

A matched filter hypothesis for cognitive control

EG Chrysikou, MJ Weber, SL Thompson-Schill - Neuropsychologia, 2014 - Elsevier
The prefrontal cortex exerts top-down influences on several aspects of higher-order
cognition by functioning as a filtering mechanism that biases bottom-up sensory information …

The benefits of immature cognitive control: How distributed attention guards against learning traps

NJ Blanco, BM Turner, VM Sloutsky - Journal of Experimental Child …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cognitive control allows one to focus one's attention efficiently on relevant information while
filtering out irrelevant information. This ability provides a means of rapid and effective …