The hierarchical organization of the lateral prefrontal cortex

By Derek Evan Nee, Mark D'Esposito. 2016

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology

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Aperiodic neural timescales in prefrontal cortex dilate with increased task abstraction (2025, unknown): “The regions of cortex with the longest timescales are also the regions most closely associated with greater task abstraction (5,12,19,20).”
Estimating trial-wise modulation of functional connectivity using event-related fMRI (2026, unknown): “Questions regarding directed communication or causal mechanisms remain better addressed using approaches such as dynamic causal modeling or brain stimulation in combination with fMRI (Hwang et al., 2020; Iyer et al., 2022; Nee and D’Esposito, 2016) .”
Hierarchical Reconfiguration of Neurocognitive Task Set Representations Mediates Cognitive Flexibility (2026, unknown): “…implicating the middle frontal gyrus (MFG) in contextual encoding and hierarchical cognitive control (Badre & D’Esposito, 2007; Badre & Nee, 2018; Nee & D'Esposito, 2016), we predicted that context reconfiguration (EDS) would elicit a larger neural distance in MFG than subordinate rule…”
Multiplexed Levels of Cognitive Control through Delta and Theta Neural Oscillations (2024, background): “…to appropriate actions) and “ contextual control ” (stimulus – action associations dependence on environmental context) in hierarchical control experiments (Badre & Nee, 2018), but other levels of control have been proposed, see Pitts and Nee (2022), Nee (2021), Nee and D ’ Esposito (2016, 2017).”
Multimodal neuroimaging of hierarchical cognitive control. (2024, methodology): “…that there exists a functional hierarchy of frontoparietal networks supporting cognitive control (Badre & Nee, 2018; Choi et al., 2018; Nee, 2021; Nee & D ’ Esposito, 2016, 2017) and different oscillatory signals (delta and theta) have been shown to mediate the cortico-cortical connectivity in…”
Hierarchical consciousness: the Nested Observer Windows model (2024, background): “…to a tightly synchronized network of prefrontal and parietal neurons (Mashour et al. 2020), a single multi-modal association nucleus at the apex of the prefrontal hierarchy, e.g. anterior middle frontal gyrus (Nee and D’Esposito 2016), or it could be distributed across the brain (Freeman 2015).”
Frontopolar Cortex Specializes for Manipulation of Structured Information (2022, background): “…or abstract information processing found in the most anterior portion of frontal cortex (Krawczyk et al., 2011; Voytek et al., 2015; Nee and D Esposito, 2016; Dixon et al., 2017; Duverne and Koechlin, 2017; Badre and Nee, 2018; Jerath et al., 2019; Sarafyazd and Jazayeri, 2019; Eichenbaum et…”