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

Theories of human cognition prominently feature'Broca's area', which causally contributes to
a myriad of mental functions. However, Broca's area is not a monolithic, multipurpose unit–it …

Identifying the functional specialization of the brain has moved from using cognitive tasks
and resting state to using ecological relevant, naturalistic movies. We leveraged a large …

COVID-19 forced students to rely on online learning using multimedia tools, and multimedia
learning continues to impact education beyond the pandemic. In this study, we combined …

This paper has a rather audacious purpose: to present a comprehensive theory explaining,
and further providing hypotheses for the empirical study of, the multiple ways by which …

Resting-state functional connectivity (FC) has helped reveal the intrinsic network
organization of the human brain, yet its relevance to cognitive task activations has been …

Why does performing certain tasks cause the aversive experience of mental effort and
concomitant deterioration in task performance? One explanation posits a physical resource …

Unlike brain regions that respond selectively to specific kinds of information content, a
number of frontal and parietal regions are thought to be domain-and process-general: that …

The sound of music may arouse profound emotions in listeners. But such experiences seem
to involve a 'paradox', namely that music–an abstract form of art, which appears removed …

Lesion studies link the prefrontal cortex (PFC) to executive functions. However, the evidence
from in vivo investigations in healthy people is mixed, and there are no quantitative …