Exploration of the neural substrates of executive functioning by functional neuroimaging
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This review presents neuroimaging studies that have explored the cerebral substrates of executive functioning. These studies have demonstrated that different executive functions not only recruit various frontal areas but also depend upon posterior (mainly parietal) regions. These results are in accordance with the hypothesis that executive functioning relies on a distributed cerebral network that is not restricted to anterior cerebral areas. However, there exists an important heterogeneity in the cerebral areas associated with these different processes, and also between different tasks assessing the same process. Since these discrepant results could be due to the paradigms used (subtraction designs), recent results obtained with conjunction and interaction analyses are presented, which confirm the role of parietal areas in executive functioning and also demonstrate the existence of some specificity in the neural substrates of the executive processes of updating, shifting and inhibition. Finally, functional magnetic resonance imaging studies show that the activity in cerebral areas involved in executive tasks can be transient or sustained. Consequently, to better characterize the functional role of areas associated with executive functioning, it is important to take into account not only the localization of cerebral activity but also the temporal pattern of this activity.
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- Authors
- Collette, F., Hogge, M., Salmon, E., & Van der Linden, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Liège (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Collette, F.
- ORCID
- Collette, F.
- Venue
- Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-04
- Volume
- 139
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 209-221
- ISSN
- 0306-4522 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2106702178
- Semantic Scholar
- db9f11795afb599eb6832a548d92a86a7277ed89
- Cited by
- 464
- References
- 129
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- orbi.uliege.be
- Licence
- Locations
- Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Historical and Modern Theater Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Keywords
- executive function, neural correlates, distributed neural networks, frontal cortex, parietal cortex, working memory updating, cognitive flexibility, inhibition, conjunction analysis, interaction analysis, temporal dynamics of brain activity
- MeSH terms
- Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Models, Neurological, Nerve Net, Neural Pathways, Parietal Lobe, Time Factors, Positron-Emission Tomography
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