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Dynamics of cognitive control: Theoretical bases, paradigms, and a view for the future
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Cognitive control (with the closely related concepts of attention control and executive function) encompasses the collection of processes that are involved in generating and maintaining appropriate task goals and suppressing task goals that are no longer relevant, as well as the way in which current goal representations are used to modify attentional biases to improve task performance. Here, we provide a comprehensive but nonexhaustive review of this complex literature, with an emphasis on the contributions made by techniques for studying human brain function. The review is divided into five sections: (a) overview and historical perspective of cognitive control, its subcomponent processes, and its neural substrate; (b) most common types of tasks used to assess and/or manipulate the level of control; (c) main research findings obtained with various imaging methodologies, with a focus on ERP data, and briefer overviews of oscillatory (event‐related spectral perturbations) and fMRI data; (d) major theories of cognitive control; and (e) discussion of open questions regarding how to integrate the various dimensions of control, as well as the faster versus slower temporal dynamics informing this complex and multifaceted concept.
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- Authors
- Gratton, G., Cooper, P., Fabiani, M., Carter, C. S., & Karayanidis, F.
- Affiliations
- Department of Psychology and Beckman Institute University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign Urbana Illinois USA
- School of Psychology University of Newcastle Newcastle New South Wales Australia
- Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology University of California–Davis Davis California USA
- Venue
- Psychophysiology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-10-17
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 0048-5772
- 1469-8986
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- 45
- Language
- en
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- Australian Research Council (DP120100340, DP170100756)
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