Functional connectivity profile of the human inferior frontal junction: involvement in a cognitive control network.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The human inferior frontal junction area (IFJ) is critically involved in three main component processes of cognitive control (working memory, task switching and inhibitory control). As it overlaps with several areas in established anatomical labeling schemes, it is considered to be underreported as a functionally distinct location in the neuroimaging literature. While recent studies explicitly focused on the IFJ's anatomical organization and functional role as a single brain area, it is usually not explicitly denominated in studies on cognitive networks. However based on few analyses in small datasets constrained by specific a priori assumptions on its functional specialization, the IFJ has been postulated to be part of a cognitive control network. Goal of this meta-anal

SUBMITTER: Sundermann B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3582543 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature