Mapping common and distinct brain correlates among cognitive flexibility tasks: concordant evidence from meta-analyses.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive flexibility allows individuals to switch between different tasks, strategies, or ideas; an ability that is important for everyday life. The Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST) and task switching paradigm (TSP) are popular measures of cognitive flexibility. Although both tasks require switching, the TSP requires participants to memorize switching rules and retrieve them when they view a cue (rule-retrieval), whereas the classic WCST requires participants to discover the switching rule via trial-and-error (rule-discovery). Many functional magnetic resonance imaging studies have examined brain responses to these tasks. Extant meta-analyses show concordance in activation in a widespread set of areas including frontal, parietal, and cingulate cortices. Critically, past meta-analyses ha

SUBMITTER: Chuikova ZV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11846771 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature