Cross-task specificity and within-task invariance of cognitive control processes
Summary: Cognitive control involves flexibly combining multiple sensory inputs with task-dependent goals during decision making. Several tasks involving conflicting sensory inputs and motor outputs have been proposed to examine cognitive control, including the Stroop, Flanker, and multi-source inter...
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| author | Yuchen Xiao Chien-Chen Chou Garth Rees Cosgrove Nathan E. Crone Scellig Stone Joseph R. Madsen Ian Reucroft Yen-Cheng Shih Daniel Weisholtz Hsiang-Yu Yu William S. Anderson Gabriel Kreiman |
| author_facet | Yuchen Xiao Chien-Chen Chou Garth Rees Cosgrove Nathan E. Crone Scellig Stone Joseph R. Madsen Ian Reucroft Yen-Cheng Shih Daniel Weisholtz Hsiang-Yu Yu William S. Anderson Gabriel Kreiman |
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| description | Summary: Cognitive control involves flexibly combining multiple sensory inputs with task-dependent goals during decision making. Several tasks involving conflicting sensory inputs and motor outputs have been proposed to examine cognitive control, including the Stroop, Flanker, and multi-source interference task. Because these tasks have been studied independently, it remains unclear whether the neural signatures of cognitive control reflect abstract control mechanisms or specific combinations of sensory and behavioral aspects of each task. To address these questions, we record invasive neurophysiological signals from 16 patients with pharmacologically intractable epilepsy and compare neural responses within and between tasks. Neural signals differ between incongruent and congruent conditions, showing strong modulation by conflicting task demands. These neural signals are mostly specific to each task, generalizing within a task but not across tasks. These results highlight the complex interplay between sensory inputs, motor outputs, and task demands underlying cognitive control processes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-001b1044bb1248bbaa12cb4389913b2e2023-01-11T04:28:44ZengElsevierCell Reports2211-12472023-01-01421111919Cross-task specificity and within-task invariance of cognitive control processesYuchen Xiao0Chien-Chen Chou1Garth Rees Cosgrove2Nathan E. Crone3Scellig Stone4Joseph R. Madsen5Ian Reucroft6Yen-Cheng Shih7Daniel Weisholtz8Hsiang-Yu Yu9William S. Anderson10Gabriel Kreiman11Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USADepartment of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University College of Medicine, Taipei, TaiwanBrigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USAJohns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USABoston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USABoston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USAJohns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USADepartment of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University College of Medicine, Taipei, TaiwanBrigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USADepartment of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University College of Medicine, Taipei, TaiwanJohns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USABoston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, Cambridge, MA, USA; Corresponding authorSummary: Cognitive control involves flexibly combining multiple sensory inputs with task-dependent goals during decision making. Several tasks involving conflicting sensory inputs and motor outputs have been proposed to examine cognitive control, including the Stroop, Flanker, and multi-source interference task. Because these tasks have been studied independently, it remains unclear whether the neural signatures of cognitive control reflect abstract control mechanisms or specific combinations of sensory and behavioral aspects of each task. To address these questions, we record invasive neurophysiological signals from 16 patients with pharmacologically intractable epilepsy and compare neural responses within and between tasks. Neural signals differ between incongruent and congruent conditions, showing strong modulation by conflicting task demands. These neural signals are mostly specific to each task, generalizing within a task but not across tasks. These results highlight the complex interplay between sensory inputs, motor outputs, and task demands underlying cognitive control processes.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124722018174CP: Neuroscience |
| spellingShingle | Yuchen Xiao Chien-Chen Chou Garth Rees Cosgrove Nathan E. Crone Scellig Stone Joseph R. Madsen Ian Reucroft Yen-Cheng Shih Daniel Weisholtz Hsiang-Yu Yu William S. Anderson Gabriel Kreiman Cross-task specificity and within-task invariance of cognitive control processes Cell Reports CP: Neuroscience |
| title | Cross-task specificity and within-task invariance of cognitive control processes |
| title_full | Cross-task specificity and within-task invariance of cognitive control processes |
| title_fullStr | Cross-task specificity and within-task invariance of cognitive control processes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cross-task specificity and within-task invariance of cognitive control processes |
| title_short | Cross-task specificity and within-task invariance of cognitive control processes |
| title_sort | cross task specificity and within task invariance of cognitive control processes |
| topic | CP: Neuroscience |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124722018174 |
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