Jamil P. Bhanji

Acute stress may facilitate cognitive control, thereby enhancing cognitive performance. Stress-related task performance may be represented in the activity of control-related brain regions. 1 INTRODUCTION Acute stress (hereafter “stress”) stems from the perception of situations or contexts as threatening and taxing to one's adaptive capacity (Lazarus, 1966), and is accompanied by a multilevel response comprising physiological, psychological, and behavioral dimensions.

Advanced Review Mauricio R. Delgado Corresponding Author Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA Correspondence to: E-mail address: delgado@psychology.rutgers.edu Search for more papers by this author Conflict of interest: The authors have declared no conflicts of interest for this article. PDF PDF Share Abstract In the highly social life of humans, rewards that are sought and experienced are intertwined with social relationships and interactions between people.