The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a critical role in the generation and regulation of emotion.
However, we lack an integrative framework for understanding how different emotion-related …

The neural basis and cognitive functions of various spontaneous thought processes,
particularly mind-wandering, are increasingly being investigated. Although strong links have …

Patients with Parkinson's disease have a number of specific visual disturbances. These
include changes in colour vision and contrast sensitivity and difficulties with complex visual …

An important component of routine visual behavior is the ability to find one item in a visual
world filled with other, distracting items. This ability to perform visual search has been the …

Classifying limb movements using brain activity is an important task in Brain-computer
Interfaces (BCI) that has been successfully used in multiple application domains, ranging …

Neuronal activity causes local changes in cerebral blood flow, blood volume, and blood
oxygenation. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques sensitive to changes in …

In this paper we introduce the idea of explaining responses, in one cortical area, in terms of
an interaction between the influence of another area and some experimental (sensory or …

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the
cognitive sciences. It presents a model for understanding the visual processing underlying …

Is the human mind/brain composed of a set of highly specialized components, each carrying
out a specific aspect of human cognition, or is it more of a general-purpose device, in which …

The mentalizing (theory of mind) system of the brain is probably in operation from ca. 18
months of age, allowing implicit attribution of intentions and other mental states. Between the …