A model of the effects of aging on brain activity during cognitive performance is introduced.
The model is called HAROLD (hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults), and it …

The structure of the brain and the nature of evolution suggest that, despite its uniqueness,
language likely depends on brain systems that also subserve other functions. The …

What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? do we control our
emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic …

The purpose of this review is to extend the existing application of the frontal lobe hypothesis
of cognitive aging beyond the limited work on inhibitory control (FN Dempster, 1992) to …

Delineating the functional organization of the prefrontal cortex is central to advancing
models of goal‐directed cognition. Considerable evidence indicates that specific forms of …

A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist's “grip** and thought-provoking” look at
how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In …

In this review, we report on studies that have assessed the effects of exogenous and
endogenous increases in stress hormones on human cognitive performance. We first …

Adult humans are capable of remembering prior events by mentally traveling back in time to
reexperience those events. In this review, the authors discuss this and other related …

Memory. There may be nothing more important to human beings than our ability to enshrine
experience and recall it. While philosophers and poets have elevated memory to an almost …

By utilizing new information from both clinical and experimental (lesion, electrophysiological,
and gene-activation) studies with animals, the anatomy underlying anterograde amnesia …