Journal
BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 1256, Issue -, Pages 92-100Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.12.001
Keywords
Prefrontal cortex; Cognitive control; Magnetic resonance imaging; Working memory; Semantic retrieval; Interference; Selection
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- NIH [AG18286]
- NSF [MH 60655]
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Work in functional neuroimaging has mapped interference resolution processing onto left inferior frontal regions for both verbal working memory and a variety of semantic processing tasks. The proximity of the identified regions from these different tasks suggests the existence of a common, domain-general interference resolution mechanism. The current research specifically tests this idea in a within-subject design using fMRI to assess the activation associated with variable selection requirements in a semantic retrieval task (verb generation) and a verbal working memory task with a trial-specific proactive interference manipulation (recent-probes). High interference trials on both tasks were associated with activity in the midventrolateral region of the left inferior frontal gyrus, and the regions activated in each task strongly overlapped. The results indicate that an elemental component of executive control associated with interference resolution during retrieval from working memory and from semantic memory can be mapped to a common portion of the left inferior frontal gyrus. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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