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Schlagwörter:
Cognitive control; Synopsis current issue; Methods; New perspectives
Zusammenfassung:
In this introductory article of the special issue of
Brain Research
, we first present an overview
of some general questions relating to cognitive control. For instance, one of the questions
that remain to be answered is what control mechanisms and their neural underpinnings
really
‘
do
’
, beyond what is done by more basic
‘
computational
’
or data processing systems in
the brain. We then briefly describe the four major issues addressed in the separate articles of
this issue, namely attentional orienting, task set switching, performance and error
monitoring, and response inhibition
.Inconclusion,wefocusonsomenew
methodological directions and illustrate how the study of cognitive control may be
augmented by relatively newly emerging theoretical and empirical perspectives.
