The What and How of prefrontal cortical organization
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There is indeed a systematic organization across PFC areas, with an important functional distinction between ventral and dorsal regions characterized as processing What versus How information, respectively, and this distinction has implications for the rostro-caudal and medial-lateral axes of organization.About:
This article is published in Trends in Neurosciences.The article was published on 2010-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 255 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prefrontal cortex.read more
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Functional network organization of the human brain
Jonathan D. Power,Alexander L. Cohen,Steven M. Nelson,Gagan S. Wig,Kelly Anne Barnes,Jessica A. Church,Alecia C. Vogel,Timothy O. Laumann,F.M. Miezin,Bradley L. Schlaggar,Steven E. Petersen +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied functional brain organization in healthy adults using resting state functional connectivity MRI and proposed two novel brain wide graphs, one of 264 putative functional areas, the other a modification of voxelwise networks that eliminates potentially artificial short-distance relationships.
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The Expected Value of Control: An Integrative Theory of Anterior Cingulate Cortex Function
TL;DR: This work presents a normative model of EVC that integrates three critical factors: the expected payoff from a controlled process, the amount of control that must be invested to achieve that payoff, and the cost in terms of cognitive effort.
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Unity and diversity of executive functions: Individual differences as a window on cognitive structure.
Naomi P. Friedman,Akira Miyake +1 more
TL;DR: It is highlighted how considering individual differences at the behavioral and neural levels can add considerable insight to the investigation of the functional organization of the brain, and some key points about individual differences to consider when interpreting neuropsychological patterns of dissociation are highlighted.
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The ventral visual pathway: an expanded neural framework for the processing of object quality
Dwight J. Kravitz,Kadharbatcha S. Saleem,Chris I. Baker,Leslie G. Ungerleider,Mortimer Mishkin +4 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that the ventral pathway is best understood as a recurrent occipitotemporal network containing neural representations of object quality both utilized and constrained by at least six distinct cortical and subcortical systems.
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Motivation and Cognitive Control: From Behavior to Neural Mechanism
Matthew Botvinick,Todd S. Braver +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that neuroscientific evidence plays a critical role in understanding the mechanisms by which motivation and cognitive control interact, and is advocated for a view of control function that treats it as a domain of reward-based decision making.
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