Dorsolateral prefrontal activity supports a cognitive space organization of cognitive control.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive control resolves conflicts between task-relevant and -irrelevant information to enable goal-directed behavior. As conflicts can arise from different sources (e.g., sensory input, internal representations), how a limited set of cognitive control processes can effectively address diverse conflicts remains a major challenge. Based on the cognitive space theory, different conflicts can be parameterized and represented as distinct points in a (low-dimensional) cognitive space, which can then be resolved by a limited set of cognitive control processes working along the dimensions. It leads to a hypothesis that conflicts similar in their sources are also represented similarly in the cognitive space. We designed a task with five types of conflicts that could be conceptually parameterized

SUBMITTER: Yang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10942645 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature