Cognitive flexibility: neurobehavioral correlates of changing one's mind.

ABSTRACT: Behavioral and cognitive flexibility allow adaptation to a changing environment. Most tasks used to investigate flexibility require switching reactively in response to deterministic task-response rules. In daily life, flexibility often involves a volitional decision to change behavior. This can be instigated by environmental signals, but these are frequently unreliable. We report results from a novel "change your mind" task, which assesses volitional switching under uncertainty without the need for rule-based learning. Participants completed a two-alternative choice task, and following spurious feedback, were presented with the same stimulus again. Subjects had the opportunity to repeat or change their response. Forty healthy participants completed the task while undergoing a functional ma

SUBMITTER: Zuhlsdorff K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10152092 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature