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Monitoring Demands for Executive Control: Shared Functions between Human and Nonhuman Primates

Year: 2016

Type: review

Abstract: Fifteen years ago, an influential model proposed that the human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) detects conflict and induces adaptive control of behavior. Over the years support for this model has been mixed, in particular due to divergent findings in human versus nonhuman primates. We here review recent findings that suggest greater commonalities across species. These include equivalent behavioral consequences of conflict and similar neuronal signals in the dACC, but also a common failure of dACC lesions to reliably abolish conflict-driven behavior. We conclude that conflict might be one among many drivers of adjustments in executive control and that the ACC might be just one component of overlapping distributed systems involved in context-dependent learning and behavioral control.

Source: Trends in Neurosciences

DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2016.11.001

Authors: Farshad A. Mansouri, Tobias Egner, Mark J. Buckley

Institutions: ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, Monash University, Duke University, University of Oxford

Language: English

Topic: Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $4,322

Funders: Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council