The palatability and pleasantness of the sensory properties foods drive food selection intake may contribute to overeating obesity. Oral fat texture can make palatable pleasant. To analyze its neural basis, we correlated humans' subjective reports flavor a high- low-fat with vanilla or strawberry flavor, activations measured functional magnetic resonance imaging. Activity in midorbitofrontal anterior cingulate cortex was oral nearby locations flavor. pregenual showed supralinear response...

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a cognitive condition characterized by severe deficit in face recognition. Few investigations have examined whether impairments at the early stages of processing may underpin condition, and it also unknown DP simply "bottom end" typical face-processing spectrum. To address these issues, we monitored eye-movements DPs, perceivers, "super recognizers" (SRs) while they viewed set static images displaying people engaged naturalistic social scenarios. Three key...

Representing the affective value of a reward on continuous scale may occur separately from making binary, for example yes vs no, decision about whether to choose reward. To investigate these are separable processes, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging measure activations produced by pleasant warm, unpleasant cold, and affectively complex combinations stimuli applied hand. On some trials was rated scale, different yes-no made stimulus should be repeated in future. Decision-making...

Decision-making about affective value may occur after the reward of a stimulus is represented and involve different brain areas to those involved in decision-making physical properties stimuli, such as intensity. In an fMRI study, we delivered two odors separated by delay, with instructions on trials decide which odor was more pleasant or intense rate pleasantness intensity second without making decision. The signals medial prefrontal cortex area 10 (medial PFC) regions it projects,...

It has been proposed that the inferior/ventrolateral frontal cortex plays a critical role in inhibitory control of action during cognitive tasks. However, contribution this region to eye movements not clearly established. Here, we describe performance group 23 lobe damaged patients an oculomotor rule switching task for which association between centrally presented visual cue and direction saccade could change from trial trial. A subset 16 also completed standard antisaccade task....

Understanding causal relationships and violations of those is fundamental to learning about the world around us. Over time some these become so firmly established that they form part an implicit belief system what possible impossible in world. Previous studies investigating neural correlates learned have focused on were task-specific probabilistic. In contrast, present study uses magic-trick perception as a means are long-established, deterministic, aforementioned system. Compared situations...

Several accounts of the Stroop task assume that interference effect has several distinct loci (as opposed to a single response locus). The present study was designed explore whether this is case with both manual and vocal responses. To end, we used an extended form paradigm (Augustinova et al., 2018b) successfully distinguishes between contribution vs. semantic conflict overall interference. In line past findings, results Experiment 1 yielded important modality effect: magnitude...

In the present study participants completed two blocks of Stroop task, one in which response-stimulus interval (RSI) was 3500 ms and RSI 200 ms. It expected that, line with previous research, shorter would induce a low Task Conflict context by increasing focus on color identification goal task lead to novel finding an increase facilitation simultaneous decrease interference. Such be problematic for models effects that predict these indices performance should affected tandem. A crossover...

An enduring question in selective attention research is whether we can successfully ignore an irrelevant stimulus and at what point the stream of processing are able to select appropriate source information. Using methods informed by recent on varieties conflict Stroop task present study provides evidence for specialized functions regions frontoparietal network response semantic during performance. Specifically, used trial types orthogonal contrasts thought better independently measure...

We first review recent work from our laboratory, which construes hypnotizability as an example of a more general trait capacity for phenomenological control, people can use to create subjective experiences in many non-hypnotic contexts where those fulfill people's goals.Second, we work, control specifically metacognitive process, intentional cognitive and motor action occurs without awareness specific intentions (cold theory).In terms the reach argue that various laboratory phenomena, namely...

Task sets have been argued to play an important role in cognition, giving rise the notions of needing switch between active task and control competing selective attention tasks. For example, it has that Stroop interference results from two categories conflict: informational (set) conflict. Informational conflict arises processing word is resolved by a late selection mechanism; when (i.e., reading colour identification) compete for activation can be construed as involving early mechanism....

By addressing numerous statistical, theoretical, and methodological weaknesses of existing research on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), this study attempted to examine closely whether cognitive dysfunction in CFS patients is restricted slowed information processing or it extends less efficient attentional selectivity. In an online study, 83 healthy controls (all French-speaking volunteers) first completed the Multidimensional Chronic Asthenia Scale then performed two-to-one version Stroop...

Research has revealed a positive relationship between types of mind wandering and ADHD at clinical subclinical levels. However, this work did not consider the core symptoms ADHD: inattention, hyperactivity impulsivity. Given that DMS-V attributes to inattention only, only is thought result from impairment executive function linked wandering, present research sought examine in 80 undiagnosed adults. Using both standard easy versions Sustained Attention Response Task (SART) we measured...

Abstract Previous work investigating the effect of rTMS left Dorso-Lateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) on Stroop task performance reports no changes to but reduced reaction times both congruent and incongruent trials relative sham stimulation; an attributed enhanced attentional (or task) set for colour classification. The present study tested this account by whether, vertex stimulation, DLPFC modifies conflict, a form conflict that arises when sets classification word reading compete, given...