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Matthew R Nassar1, Rasmus Bruckner2, Ben Eppinger3
1Department of Cognitive,Linguistic, andPsychological Sciences,Brown University,Providence,RI 02912matthew_nassar@brown.edu.
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|March 29, 2017
Abstract:
Mather and colleagues provide an impressive cross-level account of how arousal levels modulate behavior, and they support it with data ranging from receptor pharmacology to measures of cognitive function. Here we consider two related questions: (1) Why should the brain engage in different arousal levels? and (2) What are the predicted consequences of age-related changes in norepinephrine signaling for cognitive function?