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Shared and selective neural correlates of inhibition, facilitation, and shifting processes during executive control
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A network of prefrontal and parietal regions has been implicated in executive control processes. However, the extent to which individual regions within this network are engaged in component control processes, such as inhibition of task-irrelevant stimulus attributes or shifting (switching) between attentional foci, remains controversial. Participants (N=17) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a global-local task in which the global and local levels could facilitate or interfere with one another. Stimuli were presented in blocks in which participants either constantly shifted between the global and local levels, or consistently responded to one level only. Activations related to inhibition and shifting processes were observed in a large network of bilateral prefrontal, parietal, and basal ganglia regions. Region of interest analyses were used to classify each region within this network as being common to inhibition and shifting, or preferential to one component process. Several regions were classified as being preferential to inhibition, including regions within the dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, the parietal lobes, and the temporal-parietal junction. A limited set of regions in the parietal lobes and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex were classified as preferential to shifting. There was a very large set of regions displaying activation common to both inhibition and shifting processes, including regions within the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate, and basal ganglia. Several of these common regions were also involved during facilitation, suggesting that they are responsive to the number of task-salient channels of information, rather than purely to demands on control processes.
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- Authors
- Hedden, T., & Gabrieli, J. D. E.
- Affiliations
- McGovern Institute for Brain Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hedden, Trey
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-05
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 421-431
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2852172
- OpenAlex
- W1991600003
- Cited by
- 146
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- FWCI
- 8.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed Central
- Funders
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Centre d'Imagerie BioMédicale
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital
- National Institute on Aging (AG021847, F32AG021847)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH061426, MH061426)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Keywords
- executive function, inhibition, attentional shift, facilitation, prefrontal cortex, parietal cortex, basal ganglia, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, temporoparietal junction, neural correlates
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Basal Ganglia, Brain, Brain Mapping, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neural Pathways, Neuropsychological Tests, Parietal Lobe, Reaction Time, Prefrontal Cortex, Young Adult, Executive Function
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