ReviewCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2021
Meta-control: From psychology to computational neuroscience.
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- Neural basis of compositional control.Nature · 2026Article
- Learning and Using Different Task Rule Updating Strategies Require Extensive Practice.Cognitive science · 2026Article
- Individual Differences in Error-Related Brain Activity and Post-Error Slowing in Children.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Understanding human metacontrol and its pathologies using deep neural networks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Positive affect increases aperiodic brain activity.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Cognitive flexibility versus stability via activation-based and weight-based adaptations.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Habitual video gaming predicts multitasking performance while the role of cognitive capacity remains inconclusive.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Always in (partner) action? Working in teams may improve simulated flight performance-but only in the apt cognitive control state.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2025Article
- Heuristic pruning of decision trees at low probabilities and probability discounting in sequential planning in young and older adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Stimulus representation in human frontal cortex supports flexible control in working memory.eLife · 2025Article
- Impaired arbitration between reward-related decision-making strategies in Alcohol Users compared to Alcohol Non-Users: a computational modeling study.NPP - digital psychiatry and neuroscience · 2025Article
- Cognitive Control.Annual review of psychology · 2025Review
- Metacontrol Regulates Creative Thinking: An EEG Complexity Analysis Based on Multiscale Entropy.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- The influence of reward and loss outcomes after free- and forced-tasks on voluntary task choice.Psychological research · 2024Article
- From Tripping and Falling to Ruminating and Worrying: A Meta-Control Account of Repetitive Negative Thinking.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2024Article
- Brain tumor segmentation using neuro-technology enabled intelligence-cascaded U-Net model.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2024Article
- The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
- Post-injury pain and behaviour: a control theory perspective.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023Review
- Alpha ERS-ERD Pattern during Divergent and Convergent Thinking Depends on Individual Differences on Metacontrol.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Freezing revisited: coordinated autonomic and central optimization of threat coping.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Research in the past decades shed light on the different mechanisms that underlie our capacity for cognitive control. However, the meta-level processes that regulate cognitive control itself remain poorly understood. Following the terminology from artificial intelligence, meta-control can be defined as a collection of mechanisms that (a) monitor the progress of controlled processing and (b) regulate the underlying control parameters in the service of current task goals and in response to internal or external constraints. From a psychological perspective, meta-control is an important concept because it may help explain and predict how and when human agents select different types of behavioral strategies. From a cognitive neuroscience viewpoint, meta-control is a useful concept for understanding the complex networks in the prefrontal cortex that guide higher-level behavior as well as their interactions with neuromodulatory systems (such as the dopamine or norepinephrine system). The purpose of the special issue is to integrate hitherto segregated strands of research across three different perspectives: 1) a psychological perspective that specifies meta-control processes on a functional level and aims to operationalize them in experimental tasks; 2) a computational perspective that builds on ideas from artificial intelligence to formalize normative solutions to meta-control problems; and 3) a cognitive neuroscience perspective that identifies neural correlates of and mechanisms underlying meta-control.
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