Flexible neural mechanisms of cognitive control within human prefrontal cortex

By Todd S. Braver, J. Paxton, H. Locke, Deanna M. Barch. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Top-down modulation of visual feature processing: The role of the inferior frontal junction (2010, background): “Although the current data suggest that the IFJ is involved in top-down modulation in an anticipatorymanner, recent findings have suggested the right IFJ may operate in both proactive and reactive modes of cognitive control (Braver et al., 2009).”
Cognitive Control Predicts Use of Model-based Reinforcement Learning (2014, background): “Similarly, in simple contextprocessing tasks, DLPFC activation accompanies utilization of goal-related cues—the hallmark of cognitive control (Braver et al., 2009; Egner & Hirsch, 2005; Kerns et al., 2004), whereas disruption of activity in the same region can impair context-dependent responding (Dʼ”
Aging, training, and the brain: A review and future directions (2009, positive): “They provide information about how older adults' approach to a task may change as a result of training—increased engagement of visuo-spatial processes related to the method of loci in Nyberg et al. (2003), a shift towards more proactive processing in Braver et al. (2009).”
The neural dynamics of updating person impressions. (2013, background): “…to high-level cognitive processes, including maintaining abstract mental sets (Christoff et al., 2007), multitasking (Burgess et al., 2001; Burgess et al., 2003; Badre et al., 2004), and perhaps most importantly, the flexible exertion of cognitive control (Braver et al., 2003; Braver et al., 2009).”
An fMRI study of violations of social expectations: When people are not who we expect them to be (2011, positive): “These brain regions may likely support various cognitive control operations (Aron et al., 2004; Braver et al., 2009; Cools et al., 2002; D'Esposito, 2007; Kerns, et al., 2004; Koechlin et al., 2003; Kringelbach and Rolls, 2003; Ochsner and Gross, 2005) necessary to create distinct impressions of soc”
Rule abstraction, model-based choice, and cognitive reflection (2016, background): “Although the present study is correlational, manipulating cognitive strategies experimentally may provide further insight into the relationship between these processes and ways to improve effortful performance (e.g., Braver et al., 2009; Alter, Oppenheimer, Epley, & Eyre, 2007).”
The variable nature of cognitive control: A dual-mechanisms framework (2012, neutral): “BX trials in the AXCPT [17, 37], switch-costs in cued task-switching [26, 32], proportion congruence and related effects in the Stroop [55, 57], and “recent negative” interference in item recognition working memory [21].”
The development of aperiodic neural activity in the human brain (2024, unknown): “We observed that flatter slopes in the MFG during adulthood were less related to memory outcomes than in children, probably due to the emergence of compensatory neural recruitment and altered cognitive strategies 91–93 .”
Annual Research Review: Developmental pathways linking early behavioral inhibition to later anxiety (2022, background): “Planful and automatic control involve overlapping brain regions (Braver, Paxton, Locke, & Barch, 2009) that are engaged together closely in time (van Wouwe, Band, & Ridderinkhof, 2011).”
Cognitive state dependent enhancement of cognitive control with transcranial magnetic stimulation (2026, unknown): “By using the context-dependent TOPX task to manipulate states of control, we leveraged a well-characterised mechanism for altering prefrontal activation and gating dynamics 63,89 .”