Journal
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 17, Issue 10, Pages 493-501Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.08.006
Keywords
cognitive control; executive functions; connectomics; connectivity; network; cognition
Funding
- National and International Research Alliance Program (NIRAP)
- Queensland State Government, Australia
- Griffith University Infrastructure Research Grant
- Australian Research Council (ARC) [FL110100103]
- Melbourne Neuroscience Institute fellowship
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council [APP1047648]
- Monash University Larkins Fellowship
- National Health and Medical Research Council [150504]
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The human brain is characterized by a remarkable ability to adapt its information processing based on current goals. This ability, which is encompassed by the psychological construct of cognitive control, involves activity throughout large-scale, specialized brain systems that support segregated functions at rest and during active task performance. Based on recent research, we propose an account in which control functions rely on transitory changes in patterns of cooperation and competition between neural systems. This account challenges current conceptualizations of control as relying on segregated or antagonistic activity of specialized brain systems. Accordingly, we argue that the study of transitory task-based interactions between brain systems is critical to understanding the flexibility of normal cognitive control and its disruption in pathological conditions.
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