Researchers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated a way to control ...

Controlling action and thought requires the capacity to stop mental processes. Over the past two decades, evidence has grown that a domain-general inhibitory control ...

Memory suppression refers to the voluntary down-regulation of unwanted or intrusive memories by means of top-down cognitive control mechanisms. This capacity is crucial in everyday life for regulating ...

Working memory and attention are closely related concepts. Working memory is defined as the ability to control attention, and distraction (e.g., irrelevant emails or text messages). WMC is critical ...