Journal
CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 29, Issue 9, Pages 3948-3960Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhy273
Keywords
cingulo-opercular network; cognitive control; fronto-parietal network; instructed behavior; mixed design
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [PSI2016-78236-P]
- Spanish Education, Culture and Sport Ministry [FPU2014/04271]
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The success of humans in novel environments is partially supported by our ability to implement new task procedures via instructions. This complex skill has been associated with the activity of control-related brain areas. Current models link fronto-parietal and cingulo-opercular networks with transient and sustained modes of cognitive control, based on observations during repetitive task settings or rest. The current study extends this dual model to novel instructed tasks. We employed a mixed design and an instruction-following task to extract phasic and tonic brain signals associated with the encoding and implementation of novel verbal rules. We also performed a representation similarity analysis to capture consistency in task-set encoding within trial epochs. Our findings show that both networks are involved while following novel instructions: transiently, during the implementation of the instruction, and in a sustained fashion, across novel trials blocks. Moreover, the multivariate results showed that task representations in the cingulo-opercular network were more stable than in the fronto-parietal one. Our data extend the dual model of cognitive control to novel demanding situations, highlighting the high flexibility of control-related regions in adopting different temporal profiles.
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