… Forstmann BU … Forstmann BU … (a) The pre-SMA exhibited increased baseline activity
under speed emphasis in the fMRI study by Forstmann et al. …

Sequential sampling models assume that people make speeded decisions by gradually
accumulating noisy information until a threshold of evidence is reached. In cognitive science, …

Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the human
cortex. The food supplement version of GABA is widely available online. Although many …

In theory, a comparison of two experimental effects requires a statistical test on their
difference. In practice, this comparison is often based on an incorrect procedure involving two …

Human decision-making almost always takes place under time pressure. When people are
engaged in activities such as shopping, driving, or playing chess, they have to continually …

In perceptual decision-making, advance knowledge biases people toward choice
alternatives that are more likely to be correct and more likely to be profitable. Accumulation-to-bound …

When people make decisions they often face opposing demands for response speed and
response accuracy, a process likely mediated by response thresholds. According to the striatal …

Fronto-basal ganglia pathways play a crucial role in voluntary action control, including the
ability to inhibit motor responses. Response inhibition might be mediated via a fast hyperdirect …

People tend to slow down after they make an error. This phenomenon, generally referred to
as post-error slowing, has been hypothesized to reflect perceptual distraction, time wasted …

As Seneca the Younger put it, “To err is human, but to persist is diabolical.” To prevent
repetition of errors, human performance monitoring often triggers adaptations such as general …