For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

We have many models of human development, from personality and psychosocial ones to those based on neuroscientific and developmental research. Freud (1937), envisioning a scientific model for ...

These areas serve as regulatory hubs, reaching out to other networks to orchestrate the brain's ongoing activities. They selectively recruit the appropriate networks for the specific task at ...