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Cognitive control, dynamic salience, and the imperative toward computational accounts of neuromodulatory function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Christopher Michael Warren ,
Peter Richard Murphy  and
Sander Nieuwenhuis
Christopher Michael Warren
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, 2311 EZ, Leiden, The Netherlands c.m.warren@fsw.leidenuniv.nl p.murphy@fsw.leidenuniv.nl snieuwenhuis@fsw.leidenuniv.nl http://www.temporalattentionlab.com
Peter Richard Murphy
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, 2311 EZ, Leiden, The Netherlands c.m.warren@fsw.leidenuniv.nl p.murphy@fsw.leidenuniv.nl snieuwenhuis@fsw.leidenuniv.nl http://www.temporalattentionlab.com
Sander Nieuwenhuis
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, 2311 EZ, Leiden, The Netherlands c.m.warren@fsw.leidenuniv.nl p.murphy@fsw.leidenuniv.nl snieuwenhuis@fsw.leidenuniv.nl http://www.temporalattentionlab.com
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Abstract

We draw attention to studies indicating that phasic arousal increases interference effects in tasks necessitating the recruitment of cognitive control. We suggest that arousal-biased competition models such as GANE (glutamate amplifies noradrenergic effects) may be able to explain these findings by taking into account dynamic, within-trial changes in the relative salience of task-relevant and task-irrelevant features. However, testing this hypothesis requires a computational model.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e227
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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