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Conflict monitoring and cognitive control
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A neglected question regarding cognitive control is how control processes might detect situations calling for their involvement. The authors propose here that the demand for control may be evaluated in part by monitoring for conflicts in information processing. This hypothesis is supported by data concerning the anterior cingulate cortex, a brain area involved in cognitive control, which also appears to respond to the occurrence of conflict. The present article reports two computational modeling studies, serving to articulate the conflict monitoring hypothesis and examine its implications. The first study tests the sufficiency of the hypothesis to account for brain activation data, applying a measure of conflict to existing models of tasks shown to engage the anterior cingulate. The second study implements a feedback loop connecting conflict monitoring to cognitive control, using this to simulate a number of important behavioral phenomena.
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“This neural region is implicated in cognitive control or conflict resolution (Botvinick, Braver, Barch, Carter, & Cohen, 2001)”
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“these individuals may respond poorly to this motivational conflict, demonstrating deficits in different systems of regulation30 encompassing attentional (e.g., attentional flexibility in processing both interoceptive and exteroceptive emotional stimuli31–33, 11) and more cognitive elaborative strategies (e.g., meta-cognitive awareness, cognitive reappraisal34, 35).”
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“This interpretation is consistent with broader cognitive-control models in which conflict signals, often associated with medial frontal/anterior cingulate activity, indicate the need to strengthen task-relevant processing and suppress competing response tendencies [112,158,159,160].”
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“Additionally, the ERN is thought to reflect performance and conflict monitoring, where clashes between multiple simultaneously active response tendencies exist, rather than simply a response to having made an error (Botvinick, Braver, Barch, Carter, & Cohen, 2001).”
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“The N200 is thought to be an ERP that signals the necessity to increase cognitive control to avoid erroneous responses (Botvinick et al., 2001)”
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“The conflict hypothesis of the ERN postulates that although ERN may be emitted by the anterior cingulate cortex, response competition processing and greater top-down control processes are recruited from the DLPFC to improve task performance (Botvinick et al., 2001; Mathalon, Whitfield, & Ford, 2003).”
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“Together, these findings highlight the need to balance facilitation and interference (Botvinick et al., 2001;Bugg & Crump, 2012).”
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“In a fifth simulation, it was shown that this mechanism could be driven by response conflict (Botvinick et al., 2001).”
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“Although the ACC is broadly associated with many neural functions including conflict monitoring and adaptation (i.e., confronting and resolving situations marked with conflicting information, Botvinick et al., 2001; Etkin et al., 2006),”
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“In multiple tasks that involve a conflict between competing responses, functional MRI (fMRI) studies have measured higher signal levels at the ACC in conditions when conflict was present (1–4).”
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“General accounts of cognitive control identify the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) as a key to the monitoring of conflict within a network of neural regions (1–3).”
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“While error-related activation in pMFC may signal the presence of cognitive events that require behavioral control, such as detecting mismatch between actual and intended responses (i.e., response conflict) (24, 25), aI/fO and adjacent lateral OFC may be preferentially linked to the emotional/motivational salience of errors, consistent with their role in somatic-autonomic and evaluative processes”
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“Specifically, this negative bias in emotion processing may reflect top-down dysfunction in brain areas, such as the DLPFC and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, implicated in the cognitive control of attention.”
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“this “cognitive control” network of brain regions is often described with respect to its involvement in self-regulation, the ability to withhold prepotent responding in favor of deliberative, planned, goal-directed, and contextually appropriate actions”
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“Hence, the conflict present during incongruent trials may serve as a reminder to reactivate the correct task set of identifying the ink color (20-23).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Botvinick, M. M., Braver, T. S., Barch, D. M., Carter, C. S., & Cohen, J. D.
- Affiliations
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Review
- Published
- 2001
- Volume
- 108
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 624-652
- ISSN
- 0033-295X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1471
- OpenAlex
- W2000998192
- Cited by
- 7,351
- References
- 164
- Citations by year
- 2026: 290 · 2025: 293 · 2024: 302 · 2023: 355 · 2022: 355 · 2021: 333 · 2020: 421 · 2019: 374 · 2018: 392 · 2017: 344 · 2016: 367 · 2015: 430 · 2014: 413 · 2013: 393 · 2012: 374
- FWCI
- 39.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5k08mh001306-03)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH16804, MH01306, T32MH016804)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- conflict monitoring, cognitive control, anterior cingulate cortex, computational modeling, conflict detection, feedback loops, brain activation, Stroop task, Simon task
- MeSH terms
- Cognition, Computer Simulation, Conflict, Psychological, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Models, Psychological, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Science
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