Characterising the unity and diversity of executive functions in a within-subject fMRI study.

ABSTRACT: Behavioural studies investigating the relationship between Executive Functions (EFs) demonstrated evidence that different EFs are correlated with each other, but also that they are partially independent from each other. Neuroimaging studies investigating such an interrelationship with respect to the functional neuroanatomical correlates are sparse and have revealed inconsistent findings. To address this question, we created four tasks derived from the same basic paradigm, one each for updating, inhibition, switching, and dual-tasking. We assessed brain activity through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in twenty-nine participants while they performed the four EF tasks plus control tasks. For the analysis, we first determined the neural correlates of each EF by subtracting the re

SUBMITTER: Saylik R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9114123 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature