Selection for Cognitive Control: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study on the Selection of Task-Relevant Information

Braß, Marcel; Cramon, D. Yves von

doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2513-04.2004

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“…Because focal lesions within this network lead to discrete functional deficits, it will be important to examine the effect that disruption has on perceptual learning. For example, the lateral prefrontal cortex is instrumental in orienting attention, particularly in relation to the selection of task-relevant information (Brass and von Cramon, 2004), as part of an anterior striatum basal ganglia loop involved in visuospatial representation (Hikosaka et al, 2002), whereas neurons within the lateral intraparietal area in nonhuman primates have been shown to integrate probabilistic evidence regarding spatial positions (Yang and Shadlen, 2007).…”

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Response-Dependent Contributions of Human Primary Motor Cortex and Angular Gyrus to Manual and Perceptual Sequence Learning

Rosenthal

Roche-Kelly²,

Husain³

et al. 2009

J. Neurosci.

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Motor sequence learning on the serial reaction time task involves the integration of response-, stimulus-, and effector-based information. Human primary motor cortex (M1) and the inferior parietal lobule (IPL) have been identified with supporting the learning of effectordependent and -independent information, respectively. Current neurocognitive data are, however, exclusively based on learning complex sequence information via perceptual-motor responses. Here, we investigated the effects of continuous theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (cTBS)-induced disruption of M1 and the angular gyrus (AG) of the IPL on learning a probabilistic sequence via sequential perceptual-motor responses (experiment 1) or covert orienting of visuospatial attention (experiment 2). Functional effects on manual sequence learning were evident during 75% of training trials in the cTBS M1 condition, whereas cTBS over the AG resulted in interference confined to a midpoint during the training phase. Posttraining direct (declarative) tests of sequence knowledge revealed that cTBS over M1 modulated the availability of newly acquired sequence knowledge, whereby sequence knowledge was implicit in the cTBS M1 condition but was available to conscious awareness in the cTBS AG and control conditions. In contrast, perceptual sequence learning was abolished in the perceptual cTBS AG condition, whereas learning was intact and available to conscious awareness in the cTBS M1 and control conditions. These results show that the right AG had a critical role in perceptual sequence learning, whereas M1 had a causal role in developing experience-dependent functional attributes relevant to conscious knowledge on manual but not perceptual sequence learning.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Response-Dependent Contributions of Human Primary Motor Cortex and Angular Gyrus to Manual and Perceptual Sequence Learning

Rosenthal

Roche-Kelly²,

Husain³

et al. 2009

J. Neurosci.

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“…The role of the IFJ in WM and cognitive control: Uploading relevant rule information As we mentioned before, studies have shown the IFJ to be crucially involved in cognitive control and, more specifically, in task switching (Brass and von Cramon, 2002, 2004a, 2004bBrass et al, 2005;Derrfuss et al, 2005;Dove et al, 2000;Kim et al, 2012;Sylvester et al, 2003). Studies have also observed the IFJ to be involved in interference control and updating (e.g., Braver et al, 1997;de Fockert et al, 2004;Derrfuss et al, 2004Derrfuss et al, , 2005Mead et al, 2002;Roth et al, 2009;Sylvester et al, 2003).…”

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“…Task switching has been related to a fronto-parietal network (see Kim et al, 2012, for a meta-analysis). In the frontal cortex, one of the regions that have been most consistently observed in neuroimaging studies of task switching is the Inferior Frontal Junction (IFJ; Brass et al, 2005;Brass and von Cramon, 2002, 2004a, 2004bDerrfuss et al, 2005;Dove et al, 2000;Sylvester et al, 2003). The IFJ is situated at the junction of the precentral sulcus and the inferior frontal sulcus and, as such, anatomically perfectly suited for task switching and task management because it is located at the border of the premotor and prefrontal cortices (Brass and von Cramon, 2002).…”

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Domain-general involvement of the posterior frontolateral cortex in time-based resource-sharing in working memory: An fMRI study

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Working memory is often defined in cognitive psychology as a system devoted to the simultaneous processing and maintenance of information. In line with the time-based resource-sharing model of working memory (TBRS; Barrouillet and Camos, 2015;Barrouillet et al., 2004), there is accumulating evidence that, when memory items have to be maintained while performing a concurrent activity, memory performance depends on the cognitive load of this activity, independently of the domain involved. The present study used fMRI to identify regions in the brain that are sensitive to variations in cognitive load in a domain-general way. More precisely, we aimed at identifying brain areas that activate during maintenance of memory items as a direct function of the cognitive load induced by both verbal and spatial concurrent tasks. Results show that the right IFJ and bilateral SPL/IPS are the only areas showing an increased involvement as cognitive load increases and do so in a domain general manner. When correlating the fMRI signal with the approximated cognitive load as defined by the TBRS model, it was shown that the main focus of the cognitive load-related activation is located in the right IFJ. The present findings indicate that the IFJ makes domain-general contributions to time-based resource-sharing in working memory and allowed us to generate the novel hypothesis by which the IFJ might be the neural basis for the process of rapid switching. We argue that the IFJ might be a crucial part of a central attentional bottleneck in the brain because of its inability to upload more than one task rule at once. © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. IntroductionThe ability of storing information, while doing something else, is one of the core abilities of the human mind making it possible for humans to flexibly adapt to an ever-changing environment. In cognitive psychology, the limited-capacity system underpinning human's ability to mentally maintain information in an active and accessible state, while concurrently and selectively processing some additional information, is referred to as working memory (WM; Baddeley and Hitch, 1974). A model of WM that has focused explicitly on the dual functioning of WM, i.e., the combination of processing and storage, is the time-based resource-sharing model (TBRS; Barrouillet et al., 2004Barrouillet et al., , 2007Barrouillet et al., , 2011. According to this model, the dual functioning of WM is achieved through a mechanism of time-based sharing of domain-general resources between processing and storage. The model assumes that processing and storage both require attention which constitutes a pool of limited domain-general resources that needs to be shared (see also Egner, 2014a, 2014b, for a similar assumption). When attention is focused on the memory traces of to-be-recalled information, they receive activation, but this activation decays over time as soon as the focus of attention is switched away (Cowan, 1995(Cowan, , 1999Towse and Hitch, 1995). Their complete loss would be avoided by a rap...

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“…In addition, recent-no trials from the adapted item recognition task have generated specific neural activity in LIFG compared with other frontal regions (Jonides et al, 1998;Nelson et al, 2003). Recently, several researchers have developed other tasks specifically designed to study the neural basis of selecting a task-relevant internal representation among competing alternatives (Brass & von Cramon, 2004;Zhang, Feng, Fox, Gao, & Tan, 2004) and found activation localized to LIFG only under conditions of conflict.…”

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Cognitive control and parsing: Reexamining the role of Broca’s area in sentence comprehension

Novick

Trueswell

Thompson-Schill

2005

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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A century of investigation into the role of the human frontal lobes in complex cognition, including language processing, has revealed several interesting but apparently contradictory findings. In particular, the results of numerous studies suggest that left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG), which includes Broca's area, plays a direct role in sentence-level syntactic processing. In contrast, other brain-imaging and neuropsychological data indicate that LIFG is crucial for cognitive control-specifically, for overriding highly regularized, automatic processes, even when a task involves syntactically undemanding material (e.g., single words, a list of letters). We provide a unifying account of these findings, which emphasizes the importance of general cognitive control mechanisms for the syntactic processing of sentences. On the basis of a review of the neurocognitive and sentence-processing literatures, we defend the following three hypotheses: (1) LIFG is part of a network of frontal lobe subsystems that are generally responsible for the detection and resolution of incompatible stimulus representations; (2) the role of LIFG in sentence comprehension is to implement reanalysis in the face of misinterpretation; and (3) individual differences in cognitive control abilities in nonsyntactic tasks predict correlated variation in sentence-processing abilities pertaining to the recovery from misinterpretation.

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Selection for Cognitive Control: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study on the Selection of Task-Relevant Information

Cited by 133 publications

References 41 publications

Response-Dependent Contributions of Human Primary Motor Cortex and Angular Gyrus to Manual and Perceptual Sequence Learning

Response-Dependent Contributions of Human Primary Motor Cortex and Angular Gyrus to Manual and Perceptual Sequence Learning

Domain-general involvement of the posterior frontolateral cortex in time-based resource-sharing in working memory: An fMRI study

Cognitive control and parsing: Reexamining the role of Broca’s area in sentence comprehension

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