Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information

By Tobias Egner, Joy Hirsch. Nature Neuroscience, 2005

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Spatial attention can modulate audiovisual integration at multiple cortical and subcortical sites (2009, positive): “Published MNI space coordinates consistent with the fusiform face area were averaged (x = )40, y = )55, z = )17; x = 37, y = )54, z = )18) (Macaluso et al., 2004; Rhodes et al., 2004; Egner & Hirsch, 2005; Spiridon et al., 2006) and inverse normalized into subject-specific space (see Fig.”
Amygdala-frontal connectivity during emotion regulation. (2007, methodology): “…between the left amygdala time series and a block vector representing the tasks of interest (Reappraise vs Maintain) (Gitelman et al., 2003; Egner and Hirsch, 2005; Etkin et al., 2006); as such the activity within this left amygdala mask was regressed on a voxel-wise basis against the…”
The neural systems that mediate human perceptual decision making (2008, methodology): “In this study, Egner and Hirsch monitored fMRI activity in the FFA while participants performed a task in which face information was sometimes relevant and sometimes irrelevan”
Resolving emotional conflict: a role for the rostral anterior cingulate cortex in modulating activity in the amygdala. (2006, background): “Specifically, we focused on the distinction between high and low conflict resolution trials in order to dissociate conflict monitoring from conflict resolution (Botvinick et al., 1999; Egner and Hirsch, 2005a; Kerns et al., 2004).”
Reward reduces conflict by enhancing attentional control and biasing visual cortical processing (2011, methodology): “…top–down control that favored the processing of task-relevant information in visual cortex during the target phase, for instance, by amplifying task-relevant information (Egner & Hirsch, 2005) and/or by improving filtering of task-irrelevant information (Polk, Drake, Jonides, Smith, & Smith, 2008).”
A core system for the implementation of task sets. (2006, background): “The importance of the bilateral aI/fO for higher-order processes has often been ignored, despite the fact that it commonly is found in published tables of active regions (Crone et al., 2005; Egner and Hirsch, 2005; Fan et al., 2005; Yeung et al., 2006).”
Electroencephalography of response inhibition tasks: functional networks and cognitive contributions. (2013, background): “It has been suggested that many observed experimental effects could well be explained in terms of facilitated processing of task-relevant rather than the suppression of task-irrelevant information (e.g., MacLeod et al., 2003; Egner and Hirsch, 2005; Aron, 2007).”
Reported self-control is not meaningfully associated with inhibition-related executive function: A Bayesian analysis (2018, background): “…inhibiting the flanker letters; overriding word-reading processes in the Stroop task) or by focusing attention on the task-relevant dimension (e.g., the central letter in the flanker stimulus, or the physical colour of the Stroop target; Cohen, Dunbar, McClelland, 1990; Egner & Hirsch, 2005).”
How do emotion and motivation direct executive control? (2009, positive): “In this manner, the modulation of executive control eventually affects visual processing [ 17 ] (Figure 1a, arrow 4).”
The Neural Basis of Inhibition in Cognitive Control (2007, background): “Egner and Hirsch (2005) used fMRI to test whether selective attention occurs via inhibitory mechanisms or amplificatory mechanisms or both.”
Effects of motivation on reward and attentional networks: an fMRI study (2012, background): “Interaction effects showed decreased activity in the thalamus, anterior cingulated gyrus, and middle frontal gyrus bilaterally when difficult conflict trials (e.g., incongruent targets) were preceded by reward cues; in contrast, the ventral striatum and orbitofrontal cortex showed greater…”
Task switching: interplay of reconfiguration and interference control. (2010, methodology): “This corresponds with accounts of interference control in the Stroop task (e.g., Egner & Hirsch, 2005).”
Prior auditory information shapes visual category-selectivity in ventral occipito-temporal cortex (2010, neutral): “They converge with previous studies on response conflict or incongruency in the visual modality alone showing that unattended words induce response amplification in the fusiform gyrus for face recognition (Egner and Hirsch, 2005).”