Anterior Cingulate Conflict Monitoring and Adjustments in Control

By John G. Kerns, J. Cohen, A. MacDonald, Raymond Y. Cho, V. Stenger, Cameron S. Carter. 2004

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Orthogonal representations for robust context-dependent task performance in brains and neural networks (2022, neutral): “Human studies havemapped the brain regions that exert control during task performance (Koechlin et al., 2003; Kerns et al., 2004; Yeung et al., 2006; Cole et al., 2016) or measured the processing costs incurred by task switches (Monsell, 2003; Brown et al.”
Where and When the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Modulates Attentional Response: Combined fMRI and ERP Evidence (2006, methodology): “It should, however, be noted that a previous study of the same Stroop task in two subjects with unilateral dorsal ACC damage showed somewhat different findings (Swick & Jovanovic, 2002).”
A core system for the implementation of task sets. (2006, result): “…manner (Badre and Wagner, 2004; Botvinick et al., 1999; Brown and Braver, 2005; Buchel et al., 1998; Bush et al., 2002; Carter et al., 2000; Eisenberger et al., 2003; Gehring and Willoughby, 2002; Holroyd et al., 2004; Kerns et al., 2004; van Schie et al., 2004; Williams et al., 2004).”
Action sets and decisions in the medial frontal cortex. (2004, background): “Even proponents of ACC conflict monitoring report caudal and dorsal activations that are close to the SFG and some distance from the rostral and ventral region that is unambiguously ACC [ 16 ,17].”
The social neuroscience of intergroup relations (2008, background): “Specifically, the dlPFC is generally believed to support the implementation of intentional (e.g., egalitarian) responses (Kerns et al., 2004), whereas the ventral lateral PFC (vlPFC) is believed to support the inhibition of unwanted tendencies (Aron et al., 2004).”
Separate conflict-specific cognitive control mechanisms in the human brain (2007, methodology): “…trial effect that has been argued to reflect the workings of the conflict-monitoring/ cognitive control loop (Botvinick et al., 1999, 2001; Kerns et al., 2004; Egner and Hirsch, 2005a,b), and which characterizes performance patterns both on the Stroop task (Kerns et al., 2004; Egner and…”
Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach (2014, background): “Furthermore, the PFC and the ACC form a network whereby the ACC signals to the PFC the presence of conflict, and the PFC subsequently exerts cognitive control and behavioral adjustments (Kerns et al., 2004).”
Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes (2011, result): “Consequently, when the current trial is incongruent and the preceding trial was congruent, the magnitude of the interference effect is magnified as compared to when the preceding trial was incongruent (additional studies illustrating this robust empirical phenomenon can be found in Akcay & Hazeltine”
Bilingual Minds (2009, background): “For example, they may function as a control loop that continually monitors attention to the required task (e.g., Botvinick, Braver, Barch, Carter, & Cohen, 2001; Kerns et al., 2004).”
Language control in bilinguals: The adaptive control hypothesis (2013, background): “In addition, there is a demand on frontal structures linked to conflict monitoring and interference suppression (e.g., Kerns et al., 2004) and to parietal regions (and frontal regions) associated with task changes.”
An fMRI study of violations of social expectations: When people are not who we expect them to be (2011, positive): “Therefore, absence of preferential ACC activation to socially incongruent trials may suggest that this region is indeed involved in conflict detection at the level of response selection (Kerns et al., 2004).”
Chapter 3 Action‐Based Model of Dissonance: A Review, Integration, and Expansion of Conceptions of Cognitive Conflict (2009, background): “The prefrontal cortex is then believed to play a critical role in responding to the discrepancy by amplifying an intended response tendency to override the unintended tendency (Kerns et al., 2004).”
PRELUDE TO AND RESOLUTION OF AN ERROR: EEG PHASE SYNCHRONY REVEALS COGNITIVE CONTROL DYNAMICS DURING ACTION MONITORING (2009, methodology): “The exact nature of this network remain unexplained, and resolution of this issue has been hindered by the lack of a proposed mechanism for this interaction (Kerns et al., 2004; Ridderinkhof et al., 2004a,b).”
Anterior cingulate cortex and conflict detection: An update of theory and data (2007, methodology): “How or why these different findings occur remains to be seen, since conflict-related control engagement appears to be robust in the Stroop and Simon tasks (Egner & Hirsch, 2005a, 2005b; Kerns, 2006; Kerns et al., 2004; Stürmer et al., 2002).”
Having a word with yourself: Neural correlates of self-criticism and self-reassurance (2010, background): “As discussed above, a number of studies suggest that DLPFC is frequently associated with the detection and resolution of errors by behavioural alteration (Garavan et al., 2002; Kerns et al., 2004; Wittfoth et al., 2009), implying that those who have a self-critical nature have greater engagement of ”
The neural correlates and functional integration of cognitive control in a Stroop task (2005, methodology): “It is this interaction between previous and current trial type (bconflict adaptationQ or the bGratton effectQ) on which the conflict monitoring/cognitive control model rests (Botvinick et al., 1999, 2001; Kerns et al., 2004; Mayr et al., 2003).”
Neural signatures of economic preferences for risk and ambiguity. (2006, background): “, 2000); performance monitoring, for which anterior cingulate cortex may be critical (Kerns et al., 2004); and learning stimulus-response contingencies, which depends upon medial prefrontal cortex (Volz et al.”