title: Cognitive control: easy to identify but hard to define.
abstract: Cognitive control is easy to identify in its effects, but difficult to grasp conceptually. This creates somewhat of a puzzle: Is cognitive control a bona fide process or an epiphenomenon that merely exists in the mind of the observer? The topiCS special edition on cognitive control presents a broad set of perspectives on this issue and helps to clarify central conceptual and empirical challenges confronting the field. Our commentary provides a summary of and critical response to each of the papers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Western OntarioGraduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Western Ontario.
authors.forename: J Bruce
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Morton
authors.forename: Fredrick
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ezekiel
authors.forename: Heather A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Wilk
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D019336:Cognitive Science / Q000379:methods; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D009488:Neurosciences; D012919:Social Behavior
keywords: Cognitive control; Cognitive neuroscience; Computational modeling; Evolution; Language