by Tobias Egner
Mesulam, M.M. (1998). From sensation to cognition. Brain, 121, 1013-1052. (Nice big-picture paper of brain organization and function)
Hommel, B., Musseler, J., Aschersleben, G., & Prinz, W. (2001). The Theory of Event Coding (TEC): a framework for perception and action planning. Behav Brain Sci, 24(5), 849-878 (Great introduction to a number of important but underappreciated ideas in cognitive psychology, including ideomotor theory and event coding)
Clark, A. (2013). Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 181-204. (Great non-technical overview of the predictive brain hypothesis)
Cowan, N. (2019). Short-term memory based on activated long-term memory: a review in response to Norris (2017). Psychological Bulletin, 145, 822-847. (Great introduction into current thinking on working memory)
Posner, M.I. & Snyder, C.R.R. (1975). Attentional and cognitive control. In: Solso, R., Ed., Hillsade, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Abingdon, 55-85. (One of the first papers to use and discuss the term “cognitive control” )
Schneider, W. & R. M. Shiffrin. (1977). Controlled and automatic human information processing: 1. Detection, search, and attention. Psychological Review, 84, 1-66.
Shiffrin, R. M., & Schneider, W. (1977). Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending and a general theory. Psychological Review, 84(2), 127–190 (A famous series of experiments on the notion of automatic versus controlled processing)
Norman, D. A. & Shallice, T. (1986). Attention to action: willed and automatic control of behavior. In Consciousness and self-regulation. G. E. Schwarz and D. Shapiro. New York, Plenum Press. (Influential formulation of the prefrontal cortex as a “supervisory attention system”)
Cohen, J.D., Dunbar, K., and McClelland, J.L. (1990). On the control of automatic processes: a parallel distributed processing account of the Stroop effect. Psychological Review, 97, 332-361. (Influential early neural network model of conflict in Stroop-like tasks)
Desimone, R. & Duncan, J. (1995). Neural mechanisms of selective visual attention. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 18, 193-222. (Influential conception of endogenous attention/working memory as biasing the competition between bottom-up stimuli for representation)
Botvinick, M. M., Braver, T. S., Barch, D. M., Carter, C. S., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. Psychol Rev, 108(3), 624-652. (Seminal paper and model for how control may be regulated to match varying control demands over time)
Miller, E.K. & Cohen, J.D. (2001). An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function. Annu Rev Neurosci, 24, 167-202. (Much-cited paper relating the common conception of cognitive control and PFC as performing context-sensitive top-down guidance of stimulus processing and response selection)
Monsell, S. (2003). Task switching. Trends Cogn Sci, 7(3), 134-140. (Seminal review of the construct of and early literature on task switching; if you’re interested in a more recent review, see Koch et al., 2018, Psychological Bulletin)
Badre, D. (2008). Cognitive control, hierarchy, and the rostro-caudal organization of the frontal lobes. Trends Cogn Sci, 12(5), 193-200. (Useful summary and discussion of proposals for hierarchical organization of control in the PFC)
Egner, T. (2014). Creatures of habit (and control): a multi-level learning perspective on the modulation of congruency effects. Front Psychol, 5, 1247. (Attempt at integrating learning, prediction, and event coding perspectives with cognitive control in the context of conflict adaptation)
Cohen, J.D. (2017). Cognitive control: core constructs and current considerations. In T. Egner (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of Cognitive Control (pp. 3-28). Wiley-Blackwell. (Interesting outlook on current issues and possible future directions in the control literature)