Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including
perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Emotion has a …

The assessment and prediction of cognitive performance is a key issue for any discipline
concerned with human operators in the context of safety-critical behavior. Most of the …

Skin-interfaced medical devices are critically important for diagnosing disease, monitoring
physiological health and establishing control interfaces with prosthetics, computer systems …

Emotional arousal enhances perception and memory of high-priority information but impairs
processing of other information. Here, we propose that, under arousal, local glutamate levels …

The well-replicated observation that many people maintain mental health despite exposure
to severe psychological or physical adversity has ignited interest in the mechanisms that …

Classic cognitive theory conceptualizes executive functions as involving multiple specific
domains, including initiation, inhibition, working memory, flexibility, planning, and vigilance …

A widely used technique for coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging data is
activation likelihood estimation (ALE), which determines the convergence of foci reported …

Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

A wealth of research demonstrates attentional biases toward threat in the anxiety disorders.
Several models have been advanced to explain these biases in anxiety, yet the mechanisms …

The prefrontal cortex (PFC)—the most evolved brain region—subserves our highest-order
cognitive abilities. However, it is also the brain region that is most sensitive to the detrimental …