A growing body of research has indicated that acute stress can critically impact memory.
However, there are a number of inconsistencies in the literature, and important questions …

In many circumstances alternative courses of action and thoughts have to be inhibited to
allow the emergence of goal-directed behavior. However, this has not been the accepted …

It is controversial whether different cognitive functions can be mapped to discrete regions of
the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The localisationist tradition has associated one cognitive …

According to the Cognitive Complexity and Control (CCC) theory, the development of
executive function can be understood in terms of age-related increases in the maximum …

Dual-system models of reasoning attribute errors of judgment to two failures: the automatic
operations of a 'System 1'generate a faulty intuition, which the controlled operations of a …

Episodic retrieval allows people to access memories from the past to guide current thoughts
and decisions. In many real‐world situations, retrieval occurs under conditions of acute …

Memories play a ubiquitous role in our emotional lives, both causing vivid emotional
experiences in their own right and imbuing perception of the external world with emotional …

Interference provides an account of one of the most basic problems in the science of
memory: forgetting. Historically, theories of this process were shaped by models of …

Over a century ago, Freud proposed that unwanted memories can be excluded from
awareness, a process called repression. It is unknown, however, how repression occurs in …

Reminders of the past can trigger the recollection of events that one would rather forget.
Here, using fMRI, we demonstrate two distinct neural mechanisms that foster the intentional …