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Neural mechanisms for response selection: Comparing selection of responses and items from working memory

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Hester, Robert, D'Esposito, Mark, Cole, Michael W., Garavan, Hugh·2007·NeuroImage

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Recent functional imaging studies of working memory (WM) have suggested a relationship between the requirement for response selection and activity in dorsolateral prefrontal (DLPFC) and parietal regions. Although a number of WM operations are likely to occur during response selection, the current study was particularly interested in the contribution of this neural network to WM-based response selection when compared to the selection of an item from a list being maintained in memory, during a verbal learning task. The design manipulated stimulus-response mappings so that selecting an item from memory was not always accompanied with selecting a motor response. Functional activation during selection supported previous findings of fronto-parietal involvement, although in contrast to previous findings left, rather than right, DLPFC activity was significantly more active for selecting a memory-guided motor response, when compared to selecting an item currently maintained in memory or executing a memory-guided response. Our results contribute to the debate over the role of fronto-parietal activity during WM tasks, suggesting that this activity appears particularly related to response selection, potentially supporting the hypothesized role of prefrontal activity in biasing attention toward task-relevant material in more posterior regions.

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  • In demanding situations of action conflict, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex provides top-down guidance to action-selection areas.

    “In these demanding situations of action conflict, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex provides top-down guidance to action-selection areas (Hester et al., 2007)”

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    The Discussion (page not specified) proposes that a top-down signal from prefrontal to parietal cortex may bias selection of a memory-guided motor response. It does not establish that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex provides such guidance in demanding situations of action conflict; the citing sentence presents a conditional proposal as fact and extends it beyond the studied task. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • These circuits are important in maintaining representations of stimulus-response associations used to guide response selection.

    “Centrally relevant to the Go/No-go tasks is the importance of these circuits in maintaining representations of stimulus-response associations used to guide response selection”

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Authors
Hester, R., D'Esposito, M., Cole, M. W., & Garavan, H.
Affiliations
  • The University of Melbourne (AU)
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • Trinity College Dublin (IE)
Corresponding author
Hester, Robert
Venue
NeuroImage
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-01
Volume
34
Issue
1
Pages
446-454
ISSN
1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1966981545
Cited by
51
References
47
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
FWCI
2.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
  • U.S. Public Health Service (GCRC M01 RR00058, DA14100)
  • Australian Research Council (DP0556602)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA14100, R01DA014100)
  • National Center for Research Resources (M01-RR00058, M01RR000058)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Keywords
response selection, working memory, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, parietal cortex, frontoparietal network, verbal learning, stimulus-response mapping, hemispheric lateralization, attentional bias
MeSH terms
Cerebral Cortex, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Memory

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