AN INFORMATION THEORY ACCOUNT OF COGNITIVE CONTROL

An information theory account of cognitive control

Our ability to efficiently process information and generate appropriate responses depends on the processes collectively called cognitive control.Despite a considerable focus Cassette Tapes in the literature on the cognitive control of information processing, neural mechanisms underlying control are still unclear, and have not been characterized by

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Tempo rubato : animacy speeds up time in the brain.

BackgroundHow do we estimate time when watching an action? The idea that events are timed by a centralized clock has recently been called into question in favour of distributed, specialized mechanisms.Here we provide evidence for a critical specialization: animate One Hitter and inanimate events are separately timed by humans.Methodology/principal

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