Midfrontal conflict-related theta-band power reflects neural oscillations that predict behavior.

By Michael X. Cohen, Tobias H. Donner. 2013

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Multiplexed Levels of Cognitive Control through Delta and Theta Neural Oscillations (2024, background): “Other studies have advanced the hypothesis that theta oscillations, specifically, support the implementation of cognitive control (Cooper et al., 2019; Sauseng et al., 2019; Cavanagh & Frank, 2014; Cohen & Donner, 2013).”
Cortical Oscillatory Activity and Motor Control in Pediatric Stroke Patients With Hemidystonia (2025, unknown): “Our region of interest for the theta band was the right middle frontal gyrus and/or right medial frontal gyrus based on previous studies (Cavanagh et al. 2012; Cavanagh and Frank 2014; Cohen and Donner 2013; Van Noordt et al. 2022).”
Theta activity and cognitive functioning: Integrating evidence from resting-state and task-related developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research (2024, background): “…has also been observed in adults during control processes related to their own behaviors, including response conflicts (Cohen and Cavanagh, 2011; Cohen and Donner, 2013; Nigbur et al., 2011), error monitoring (Cavanagh et al., 2009; Luu et al., 2004; Trujillo and Allen, 2007), task switching…”
Oscillatory signatures of monitoring and anticipatory strategies for probabilistic vs deterministic cues (2025, unknown): “…implicated in cognitive control, acting as a regulatory mechanism that influences the selection and implementation of strategies during decision-making processes ( Cohen & Donner, 2013; Ertl et al., 2013; Rajan et al., 2019; Riddle et al., 2020; Senoussi et al., 2022; Wendiggensen et al., 2022).”
Theta-Phase Connectivity between Medial Prefrontal and Posterior Areas Underlies Novel Instructions Implementation (2022, background): “Notably, midfrontal theta oscillations received increased attention in recent years because of their occurrence across a variety of tasks characterized by the need for cognitive control (Cohen and Donner, 2013; Cavanagh and Frank, 2014).”
Target Amplification and Distractor Inhibition: Theta Oscillatory Dynamics of Selective Attention in a Flanker Task (2020, background): “…midfrontal theta power increase (i.e., a positive theta effect) for both stimulus and response conflicts (Cavanagh et al., 2012; Cohen, 2014a; Cohen & Donner, 2013; Nigbur et al., 2012), which refers to suppression of task-irrelevant information as means of interference resolution in general…”
Neural signatures of prioritization and facilitation in retrieving repeated items in visual working memory (2025, unknown): “This relatively enhanced frontal medial theta power for NRep than Rep reflects on its probable role in resolving the conflict in probe matching due to irrelevant items in the probe conditions (Cohen and Donner, 2013; Kaiser et al., 2022).”
The Role of Fronto‐Central Theta Oscillations in Inter‐Sensory Selective Attention (2025, unknown): “Studies have demonstrated a distinct contribution of non- phase-versus phase-locked theta oscillations (~5 Hz) in cognitive control paradigms during the preparatory period (Cohen and Donner 2013; Cooper et al. 2019; McKewen et al. 2020).”
Linking the multiple-demand cognitive control system to human electrophysiological activity (2025, unknown): “Among these, theta power demonstrated the highest effect size and emerged as the most robust and reliable index for tracking cognitive demand (Cavanagh and Frank, 2014; Cohen and Donner, 2013; Cooper et al., 2017; Jensen and Tesche, 2002; Ratcliffe et al., 2022).”
Aperiodic and oscillatory systems underpinning human domain-general cognition (2024, unknown): “After removing the evoked potentials (i.e., the average signal across trials) from each trial for each condition 32 , we used IRASA 50 to separate the oscillatory and the aperiodic components from the mixed power spectrum using the time window of 0.3 – 1.5 s relative to stimulus onset for each…”