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  1. Gate control theory reconsidered.Kenneth J. Sufka & Donald D. Price - 2002 - Brain and Mind 3 (2):277-290.
    It has been 35 years since the publicationMelzack and Wall's Gate Control Theory whichhypothesized that nociceptive information wassubject to dynamic regulation by mechanismslocated in the spinal cord dorsal horn thatcould ultimately lead to hyperalgesic orhypoalgesic states. This paper examines GateControl Theory in light of our currentunderstanding of the neuroanatomical,neurophysiological and neurochemical substratesof nociception and antinociception. Despiteits initial controversies, no one has proposeda more comprehensive overall theory of painmodulation or has successfully refuted most ofthe basic tenets of (...)
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  2. A Control Theory of Action.Mikayla Kelley - forthcoming - Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
    One of the central problems in the philosophy of action is to spell out the distinction between action and what merely happens, e.g., a wink versus an eye twitch. This essay proposes a theory of action offering an account of this distinction. The central claim of the theory is that action is movement that is controlled by the mover, where movement is understood capaciously and control is characterized by a trio of conditions consisting of an aim condition, (...)
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    Control Theory: Placebo-Controlled Drug Trials Have Problems. Active-Controlled Drug Trials Are Not Always the Solution.Beatrice Alexandra Golomb - 2009 - American Journal of Bioethics 9 (9):67-69.
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    Perceived control: theory, research, and practice in the first 50 years.John W. Reich & Frank J. Infurna (eds.) - 2017 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    The concept of the "locus of control" is one of the most influential in all of the psychological sciences. Initially proposed by Julian Rotter in 1966, the year 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of this remarkable breakthrough, subsequently inspiring thousands of research studies in the human sciences - research that has only served to deepen the utility of this amazing concept. Edited by John W. Reich and Frank J. Infurna, Perceived Control: Theory, Research, and Practice in the (...)
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    ?Biologizing? control theory: How to make a control system come alive.John L. Casti - 2002 - Complexity 7 (4):10-12.
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    The Emotional Mind: A Control Theory of Affective States.Dana Mills - 2021 - Philosophical Quarterly 71 (1):215-217.
    The Emotional Mind: A Control Theory of Affective States. By Cochrane Tom.
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    A perceptual control theory of emotional action.Andreas B. Eder - 2023 - Cognition and Emotion 37 (7):1167-1184.
    A theory is proposed that views emotional feelings as pivotal for action control. Feelings of emotions are valued interoceptive signals from the body that become multimodally integrated with perceptual contents from registered and mentally simulated events. During the simulation of a perceptual change from one event to the next, a conative feeling signal is created that codes for the wanting of a specific perceptual change. A wanted perceptual change is weighted more strongly than alternatives, increasing its activation level (...)
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    Comment: Affect Control Theory and Cultural Priming: A Perspective from Cultural Neuroscience.Narun Pornpattananangkul & Joan Y. Chiao - 2014 - Emotion Review 6 (2):136-137.
    Affect control theory posits that emotions are constructed by social and cultural forces. Rogers, Schröder, and von Scheve introduce affect control theory as a conceptual and methodological “hub,” linking theories from different disciplines across levels of analysis. To illustrate this further, we apply their framework to cultural priming, an experimental technique in cultural psychology and neuroscience for testing how exposure to cultural symbols changes people’s behavior, cognition, and emotion. Our analysis supports the use of affect (...) theory in linking different levels of analysis while leaving some opening questions for improving such a framework in future research. (shrink)
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    Perceptual control theory.W. Thomas Bourbon - 1995 - In H. L. Roitblat & Jean-Arcady Meyer (eds.), Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science. MIT Press. pp. 151--172.
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    Author Reply: Affect Control Theory and the Sociality of Emotion.Kimberly B. Rogers, Tobias Schröder & Christian von Scheve - 2014 - Emotion Review 6 (2):140-141.
    We are pleased that all the commentators seem to agree that a theory-driven integration across disciplines is a worthwhile endeavor to better understand the social constitution of emotion. In our reply, we first take up the idea of relating affect control theory to cultural priming and suggest links to an ACT-inspired constraint satisfaction explanation of priming. Second, we address reservations concerning ACT’s capability to account for emotions with nonconceptual content and to explain stability and change in affective (...)
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  11. Thermodynamics as Control Theory.David Wallace - unknown
    I explore the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics by treating the former as a control theory: a theory of which transitions between states can be induced on a system by means of operations from a fixed list. I recover the results of standard thermodynamics in this framework on the assumption that the available operations do not include measurements which affect subsequent choices of operations. I then relax this assumption and use the framework to consider the vexed (...)
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    Evidence for an inhibitory-control theory of the reasoning brain.Olivier Houdé & Grégoire Borst - 2015 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9:122116.
    In this article, we first describe our general inhibitory-control theory and, then, we describe how we have tested its specific hypotheses on reasoning with brain imaging techniques in adults and children. The innovative part of this perspective lies in its attempt to come up with a brain-based synthesis of Jean Piaget’s theory on logical algorithms and Daniel Kahneman’s theory on intuitive heuristics.
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    Application of the metabolic control theory to the study of the dynamics of substrate cycles.F. Fassy, J.-F. Hervagaule, T. Letellier, J. P. Mazat, C. Reder & P. Villalobos - 1992 - Acta Biotheoretica 40 (2-3):121-129.
    Substrate cycles are ubiquitous structures of the cellular metabolism (e.g. Krebs cycle, fatty acids -oxydation cycles, etc... ). Moiety-conserved cycles (e.g. adenine nucleotides and NADH/NAD, etc...) are also important.The role played by such cycles in the metabolism and its regulation is not clearly understood so far. However, it was shown that these cycles can generate multistationarity (bistability), irreversible transitions, enhancement of sensitivity, temporal oscillations and chaotic motions (Hervagault & Canu, 1987; Hervagault & Cimino, 1989; Reich & Sel'kov, 1981; Ricard & (...)
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    The Emotional Mind : A Control Theory of Affective States.Tom Cochrane - 2018 - Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
    In this book, Tom Cochrane develops a new control theory of the emotions and related affective states. Grounded in the basic principle of negative feedback control, his original account outlines a new fundamental kind of mental content called 'valent representation'. Upon this foundation, Cochrane constructs new models for emotions, pains and pleasures, moods, expressive behaviours, evaluative reasoning, personality traits and long-term character commitments. These various states are presented as increasingly sophisticated layers of regulative control, which together (...)
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    Fractured Symmetries: Information and Control Theory Perspectives on Mitochondrial Dysfunction.Rodrick Wallace - 2020 - Acta Biotheoretica 69 (3):277-301.
    Mitochondrial dysfunction underlies a vast array of chronic disorders across the life span. The asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories, supplemented by symmetry-breaking phase transition arguments adapted from physical theory, give deep insight into canonical mechanisms of cognition and regulation associated with such dysfunction. The probability models studied here can provide a foundation for the development of statistical tools useful in clinical and public health address of those disorders.
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  16. Naturalizing motor control theory: Isn't it time for a new paradigm?Garrett E. Alexander, Mahlon R. DeLong & Michael D. Crutcher - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (4):828-833.
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    Moving with control: Using control theory to understand motor behavior.Neville Hogan - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (4):550-551.
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    Cause/effect metaphors versus control theory.William T. Powers - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):115-115.
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    The Control Theory of Legitimacy.Philip Pettit - 2019 - In Wojciech Sadurski, Michael Sevel & Kevin Walton (eds.), Legitimacy: The State and Beyond. Oxford University Press.
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    A physiological control theory of food intake in the rat: Mark 1.D. A. Booth & F. M. Toates - 1974 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 3 (6):442-444.
    Signals to the brain from the flows of energy around the body, varied primarily by declining amounts of food energy in the stomach, can explain the pattern of meals in the laboratory rat, the differences between dark and light phases, and the development of obesity ion the rat wioth VMH lesions but normal sating.
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    Beyond Neural Coding? Lessons from Perceptual Control Theory.Xerxes D. Arsiwalla, Ruben Moreno Bote & Paul Verschure - 2019 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42.
    Pointing to similarities between challenges encountered in today's neural coding and twentieth-century behaviorism, we draw attention to lessons learned from resolving the latter. In particular, Perceptual Control Theory posits behavior as a closed-loop control process with immediate and teleological causes. With two examples, we illustrate how these ideas may also address challenges facing current neural coding paradigms.
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  22. Applications of optimal control theory in economics.Michael D. Intriligator - 1975 - Synthese 31 (2):271 - 288.
  23. Application of control theory to macro-economic models.J. H. Westcott - 1986 - In Basil John Mason, Peter Mathias & J. H. Westcott (eds.), Predictability in science and society: a joint symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy held on 20 and 21 March 1986. Great Neck, N.Y.: Scholium International.
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    Trajectory Tracking Control in Real-Time of Dual-Motor-Driven Driverless Racing Car Based on Optimal Control Theory and Fuzzy Logic Method.Gang Li, Sucai Zhang, Lei Liu, Xubin Zhang & Yuming Yin - 2021 - Complexity 2021:1-16.
    To improve the accuracy and timeliness of the trajectory tracking control of the driverless racing car during the race, this paper proposes a track tracking control method that integrates the rear wheel differential drive and the front wheel active steering based on optimal control theory and fuzzy logic method. The model of the lateral track tracking error of the racing car is established. The model is linearized and discretized, and the quadratic optimal steering control problem (...)
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    Explaining Biological Functionality: Is Control Theory Enough?J. Collier - 2011 - South African Journal of Philosophy 30 (1):53-62.
    It is generally agreed that organisms are Complex Adaptive Systems. Since the rise of Cybernetics in the middle of the last century ideas from information theory and control theory have been applied to the adaptations of biological organisms in order to explain how they work. This does not, however, explain functionality, which is widely but not universally attributed to biological systems. There are two approaches to functionality, one based on etiology (what a trait was selected for), and (...)
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    Comment: Critical Questions for Affect Control Theory.Mikko Salmela - 2014 - Emotion Review 6 (2):138-139.
    Affect control theory is a sociological theory developed for modeling and predicting emotions and social behaviors in social interaction. In this commentary, I identify a few potential problems in the theory, as presented in the target article and elsewhere, and in its suggested compatibility with other major emotion theories. The first problem concerns ACT’s capacity to model emotion generation insofar as emotions have nonconceptual content. The second problem focuses on the limits of modeling interaction on the (...)
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    Integrating attentional control theory and the strength model of self-control.Chris Englert & Alex Bertrams - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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    An integrative control theory perspective on consciousness.Warren Mansell - 2024 - Psychological Review 131 (1):1-17.
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  29. Précis: The Emotional Mind: A Control Theory of Affective States.Tom Cochrane - 2024 - Journal of the Philosophy of Emotion 5 (2):1-16.
    A summary of The Emotional Mind: A Control Theory of Affective States is presented: I claim that a convincing account of the emotions requires a rethink of how the mind as a whole is structured. I provide this reconceptualization by introducing a fundamental type of mental concept called “valent representation" and then systematically elaborating this fundamental type in stages. In this way, accounts are provided of the various sorts of affective states ranging from pains and pleasures to character (...)
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    Systems analysis in the study of the motor-control system: Control theory alone is insufficient.R. E. Kearney & I. W. Hunter - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (4):553-554.
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    The prerequisites for one-jint motor control theories.S. V. Adamovich & A. G. Feldman - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):210-211.
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  32. Agency in schizophrenia from a control theory viewpoint.Joëlle Proust - unknown
    Experience of agency in patients with schizophrenia involves an interesting dissociation; these patients demonstrate that one can have a thought or perform an action consciously without being conscious of thinking or acting as the motivated agent, author of that thought or of that action. This chapter examines several interesting accounts of this dissociation, and aims at showing how they can be generalized to thought insertion phenomena. It is argued that control theory allows such a generalization; three different comparators (...)
     
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    Human Fertility Control: Theory and Practice. By D.F. Hawkins and M.G. Elder, (with contributions by Zara Whitworth and Jack Parsons). Pp. 483. (Butterworths, London, 1979.) Price £21.00. [REVIEW]John McEwan - 1980 - Journal of Biosocial Science 12 (3):369-371.
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    Advancing nursing practice for improved health outcomes using the principles of perceptual control theory.Robert Griffiths & Timothy A. Carey - 2020 - Nursing Philosophy 21 (3):e12301.
    This article describes how an empirically supported theory of human behaviour, perceptual control theory, can be used to advance nursing practice and improve health outcomes for people who are accessing nursing care. Nursing often takes a pragmatic approach to the delivery of care, with an emphasis on doing what appears to work. This focus on pragmatism can sometimes take precedence over any consideration of the underlying theoretical assumptions that inform decisions to take one particular approach over another (...)
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  35. Controlled & automatic processing: behavior, theory, and biological mechanisms.Walter Schneider & Jason M. Chein - 2003 - Cognitive Science 27 (3):525-559.
    This paper provides an overview of developments in a dual processing theory of automatic and controlled processing that began with the empirical and theoretical work described by Schneider and Shiffrin (1977) and Shiffrin and Schneider (1977) over a quarter century ago. A review of relevant empirical findings suggests that there is a set of core behavioral phenomena reflecting differences between controlled and automatic processing that must be addressed by a successful theory. These phenomena relate to: consistency in training, (...)
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  36. The gate control theory: reaching for the brain.Ronald Melzack & Joel Katz - 2004 - In Thomas Hadjistavropoulos & Kenneth D. Craig (eds.), Pain: Psychological Perspectives. Psychology Press. pp. 13--34.
     
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    A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain’s attentional networks?Michael W. Eysenck, Jason S. Moser, Nazanin Derakshan, Piril Hepsomali & Paul Allen - 2023 - Cognition and Emotion 37 (2):220-237.
    Attentional control theory (ACT) was proposed to account for trait anxiety’s effects on cognitive performance. According to ACT, impaired processing efficiency in high anxiety is mediated through inefficient executive processes that are needed for effective attentional control. Here we review the central assumptions and predictions of ACT within the context of more recent empirical evidence from neuroimaging studies. We then attempt to provide an account of ACT within a framework of the relevant cognitive processes and their associated (...)
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    Self-Control, Injunctive Norms, and Descriptive Norms Predict Engagement in Plagiarism in a Theory of Planned Behavior Model.Guy J. Curtis, Emily Cowcher, Brady R. Greene, Kiata Rundle, Megan Paull & Melissa C. Davis - 2018 - Journal of Academic Ethics 16 (3):225-239.
    The Theory of Planned Behavior predicts that a combination of attitudes, perceived norms, and perceived behavioral control predict intentions, and that intentions ultimately predict behavior. Previous studies have found that the TPB can predict students’ engagement in plagiarism. Furthermore, the General Theory of Crime suggests that self-control is particularly important in predicting engagement in unethical behavior such as plagiarism. In Study 1, we incorporated self-control in a TPB model and tested whether norms, attitudes, and self- (...) predicted intention to plagiarize and plagiarism behavior. The best statistical fit for the path-analytic model was achieved when a direct path from self-control to plagiarism engagement was specified. In Study 2, we added a measure of perceived behavioral control and split the measurement of norms into descriptive and injunctive components. This study found that both self-control and perceived-behavioral control additively contributed to the prediction of plagiarism and the path-analytic model achieved its best fit when direct paths from perceived norms to plagiarism behavior were specified. These studies suggest that setting strong anti-plagiarism norms, such as by the use of honor codes, and seeking to enhance students’ self-control may reduce engagement in plagiarism. (shrink)
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  39. Executive control without conscious awareness: the cold control theory of hypnosis.Zoltan Dienes & Perner & Josef - 2007 - In Graham A. Jamieson (ed.), Hypnosis and Conscious States: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press UK.
     
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    Motor partitioning: Epiphenomena masquerading as control theory.Gerald E. Loeb & Frances J. R. Richmond - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (4):660-661.
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    To Mix or Not To Mix? A Meta-Method Approach to Rethinking Evaluation Practices for Improved Effectiveness and Efficiency of Psychological Therapies Illustrated With the Application of Perceptual Control Theory.Timothy A. Carey, Vyv Huddy & Robert Griffiths - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10.
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    (1 other version)Unifying Theories of institutions: a critique of Pettit’s Virtual Control Theory.Frank Hindriks - forthcoming - Tandf: Journal of Economic Methodology:1-12.
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    Another minor revision, or the disregard for control theory and the analysis of inductive feedback systems.Ernst von Glasersfeld - 1978 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (1):79-80.
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    La theorie du controle du metabolisme controle et regulation.Jean-Pierre Mazat & Thierry Letellier - 1991 - Acta Biotheoretica 39 (3-4):207-212.
    La théorie du Contróle du Métabolisme décrit comment un réseau métabolique répond à de petites perturbations au voisinage d'un état stationnaire. Deux types de coefficients sont définis: les coefficients d'élaslicité qui quantifient les variations des vitesses des étapes isolées et les coefficients de contrôle qui expriment la réponse globale du réseau aux perturbations d'une étape donnée. Des relations entre ces coefficients existent ).On ne fait pas toujours la distinction entre Contrôle et Régulation. En fait, il apparait que la notion de (...)
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    Anxiety, anticipation and contextual information: A test of attentional control theory.Adam J. Cocks, Robin C. Jackson, Daniel T. Bishop & A. Mark Williams - 2016 - Cognition and Emotion 30 (6).
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    An economic theory of self-control.Richard Thaler & H. Shefrin - 1981 - Journal of Political Economy 89 (2):392–406.
    The concept of self-control is incorporated in a theory of individual intertemporal choice by modeling the individual as an organization. The individual at a point in time is assumed to be both a farsighted planner and a myopic doer. The resulting conflict is seen to be fundamentally similar to the agency conflict between the owners and managers of a firm. Both individuals and firms use the same techniques to mitigate the problems which the conflicts create. This paper stresses (...)
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    Advanced Topics in Modeling, Bifurcation Analysis, and Control Theory of Complex Systems.Olfa Boubaker, Sajad Jafari, Christos Volos, Zeraoulia Elhadj, Viet-Thanh Pham & Jinde Cao - 2018 - Complexity 2018:1-3.
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  48. Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility.John Martin Fischer & Mark Ravizza - 1998 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Mark Ravizza.
    This book provides a comprehensive, systematic theory of moral responsibility. The authors explore the conditions under which individuals are morally responsible for actions, omissions, consequences, and emotions. The leading idea in the book is that moral responsibility is based on 'guidance control'. This control has two components: the mechanism that issues in the relevant behavior must be the agent's own mechanism, and it must be appropriately responsive to reasons. The book develops an account of both components. The (...)
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  49. Executive control without conscious awareness: The cold control theory of hypnosis.Zoltán Dienes & Josef Perner - 2007 - In Graham A. Jamieson (ed.), Hypnosis and Conscious States: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press UK. pp. 293-314.
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    Affective theory of mind impairments underlying callous-unemotional traits and the role of cognitive control.Drew E. Winters & Joseph T. Sakai - 2023 - Cognition and Emotion 37 (4):696-713.
    Affective theory of mind (aToM) impairments associated with the youth antisocial phenotype callous-unemotional (CU) traits predict antisocial behaviour above CU traits alone. Importantly, CU traits associate with decrements in complex but not basic aToM. aToM is modulated by cognitive control and CU traits associate with cognitive control impairments; thus, cognitive control is a plausible mechanism underlying aToM impairments in CU traits. Because cognitive control is dependent on the availability of cognitive resources, youth with CU traits (...)
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