The Common Neural Basis of Exerting Self-Control in Multiple Domains

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Self-Control and Grit (2014, background): “…requiring adjudication (e.g., gobbling up one sweet and chewy marshmallow immediately vs. waiting for two; watching television vs. going to the gym), it seems that common prefrontal brain areas are involved in successful top-down regulation (Cohen & Lieberman, 2010; Heatherton & Wagner, 2011).”
Annual Research Review: On the relations among self-regulation, self-control, executive functioning, effortful control, cognitive control, impulsivity, risk-taking, and inhibition for developmental psychopathology (2016, unknown): “…in top-down processes include the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC; Botvinick & Braver, 2015; Shenhav, Botvinick, & Cohen, 2013); ventromedial prefrontal cortex (Cohen & Lieberman, 2010); ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (Egner, 2011); and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC; Diamond, 2013).”
Putting Feelings Into Words: Affect Labeling as Implicit Emotion Regulation (2018, background): “…2012), emotion regulation (Berkman & Lieberman, 2009; Hooker & Knight, 2006), and self-control more broadly (Cohen, Berkman, & Lieberman, 2012; Cohen & Lieberman, 2010; Tabibnia et al., 2014; Tabibnia et al., 2011), as well as the inverse relationship between vlPFC activity and amygdala…”