Projektnummer

0064148

Zusammenfassung

Executive functions, or cognitive control, refer to a set of processes that are required for goal-directed behavior. These processes are critical for mental and physical health as well as success in school and in life and are dysfunctional in many psychiatric disorders. But how can humans move from one thought and goal to another without losing long-range goals and how can we concentrate on a thought or goal without getting stuck on it? The author hypothesizes that a possible neural mechanism to do so relates to a concurrent realization of partial neural synchronization (locking) and d...