Common and unique components of inhibition and working memory: An fMRI, within-subjects investigation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2668-2682

  McNab, Fiona ^a   Leroux, Gaëlle ^a   Strand, Fredrik ^a   Thorell, Lisa ^a,b   Bergman, Sissela ^a   Klingberg, Torkel ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Inhibition; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 47349130017     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.04.023     Document Type: Article

References (88)

1. Aron A.R., Fletcher P.C., Bullmore E.T., Sahakian B.J., and Robbins T.W. Stop-signal inhibition disrupted by damage to right inferior frontal gyrus in humans. Nature Neuroscience 6 (2003) 115-116
2. Aron A.R., and Poldrack R.A. The cognitive neuroscience of response inhibition: Relevance for genetic research in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Biological Psychiatry 57 (2005) 1285-1292
3. Aron A.R., and Poldrack R.A. Cortical and subcortical contributions to stop signal response inhibition: Role of the subthalamic nucleus. The Journal of Neuroscience 26 9 (2006) 2424-2433
4. Aron A.R., Robbins T.W., and Poldrack R.A. Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Science 8 4 (2004) 170-177
5. Baker S.C., Frith C.D., Frackowiak R.S., and Dolan R.J. Active representation of shape and spatial location in man. Cerebral Cortex 6 (1996) 612-619
6. Band G.P., van der Molen M.W., and Logan G.D. Horse-race model simulations of the stop-signal procedure. Acta Psychologia 112 (2003) 105-142
7. Barkley R.A. Behavioral inhibition, sustained attention, and executive functions: Constructing a unifying theory of ADHD. Psychological Bulletin 121 (1997) 65-94
8. Barkley R.A. A theory of ADHD: Inhibition, executive functions, self-control, and time. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A handbook for diagnosis and treatment. 2nd edition (1998), Guilford [Chapter 7]
9. Bellgrove M.A., Hester R., and Garavan H. The functional neuroanatomical correlates of response variability: evidence from a response inhibition task. Neuropsychologia 42 (2004) 1910-1916
10. Booth J.R., Burman D.D., Meyer J.R., Lei Z., Trommer B.L., Davenport N.D., et al. Neural development of selective attention and response inhibition. NeuroImage 20 (2003) 737-751
11. Borgo F., Giovannini L., Moro R., Semenza C., Arcicasa M., and Zaramella M. Updating and inhibition processes in working memory: A comparison between Alzheimer's type dementia and frontal lobe damage. Brain and Cognition 53 2 (2003) 197-201
12. Braver T.S., and Barch D.M. A theory of cognitive control, aging cognition, and neuromodulation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 26 (2002) 809-817
13. Bunge S.A., Ochsner K.N., Desmond J.E., Glover G.H., and Gabrieli J.D. Prefrontal regions involved in keeping information in and out of mind. Brain 124 (2001) 2074-2086
14. Bunge S.A., Dudukovic N.M., Thomason M.E., Vaidya C.J., and Gabrieli J.D.E. Immature frontal lobe contributions to cognitive control in children: Evidence from fMRI. Neuron 33 (2002) 301-311
15. Cabeza R., and Nyberg L. Imaging cognition II: An empirical review of 275 PET and fMRI studies. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 12 (2000) 1-47
16. Casey B.J., Giedd J.N., and Thomas K.M. Structural and functional brain development and its relation to cognitive development. Biological Psychology 54 (2000) 241-257
17. Chambers, C. D., Bellgrove, M. A., Stokes, M. G., Henderson, T. R., Garavan, H., Robertson, I. H., Morris, A. P., & Mattingley, J.B. (2006). Executive "brake failure" following deactivation of human frontal lobe. Journal of Cogntive Neuroscience, 18, 444-455.
18. Clark L., Blackwell A.D., Aron A.R., Turner D.C., Dowson J., Robbins T.W., et al. Association between response inhibition and working memory in adult ADHD: A link to right frontal cortex pathology?. Biological Psychiatry 61 (2007) 1395-1401
19. Conway A.R.A., Cowan N., and Bunting M.F. The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: The importance of working memory capacity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 8 2 (2001) 331-335
20. Courtney S.M., Petit L., Maisog J.M., Ungerleider L.G., and Haxby J.V. An area specialized for spatial working memory in human frontal cortex. Science 279 (1998) 1347-1351
21. Courtney S.M., Ungerleider L.M., Keil K., and Haxby J.V. Object and spatial visual working memory activate separate neural systems in human cortex. Cerebral Cortex 6 (1996) 39-49
22. De Fockert J.W., Rees G., Frith C.D., and Lavie N. The role of working memory in visual selective attention. Science 291 (2001) 1803-1806
23. D'Esposito M., Aguirre G.K., Zarahn E., Ballard D., Shin R.K., and Lease J. Functional MRI studies of spatial and nonspatial working memory. Cognitive Brain Research 7 (1998) 1-13
24. D'Esposito M., Postle B.R., Jonides J., and Smith E.E. The neural substrate and temporal dynamics of interference effects in working memory as revealed by event-related functional MRI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (1999) 7514-7519
25. D'Esposito M., Postle B.R., and Rypma B. Prefrontal cortical contributions to working memory: Evidence from event-related fMRI studies. Experimental Brain Research 133 (2000) 3-11
26. Duncan J., and Owen A.M. Common regions of the human frontal lobe recruited by diverse cognitive demands. Trends in Neurosciences 23 10 (2000) 475-482
27. Fan J., Flombaum J.I., McCandliss B.D., Thomas K.M., and Posner M.I. Cognitive and brain consequences of conflict. NeuroImage 18 (2003) 42-57
28. Friedman N.P., and Miyake A. The relations among inhibition and interference control functions: A latent-variable analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 133 1 (2004) 101-135
29. Gabrieli J.D.E., Brewer J.V., and Poldrack R.A. Images of medial temporal lobe functions in human learning and memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 70 1-2 (1998) 275-283
30. Garavan H., Ross T.J., Murphy K., Roche P.A.P., and Stein E.A. Dissociable executive functions in the dynamic control of behavior: Inhibition, error detection, and correction. NeuroImage 17 (2002) 1820-1829
31. Garavan H., Ross T.J., and Stein E.A. Right hemispheric dominance of inhibitory control: An event-related functional MRI study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96 (1999) 8301-8306
32. Goldman-Rakic P.S. Development of cortical circuitry and cognitive function. Child Development 58 (1987) 601-622
33. Goldman-Rakic P.S. Cellular basis of working memory. Neuron 14 3 (1995) 477-485
34. Hanes D.P., Patterson W.F.I., and Schall J.D. Role of frontal eye fields in countermanding saccades: visual, movement, and fixation activity. Journal of Neurophysiology 79 (1998) 817-834
35. Halgren E., Marinkovic K., and Chauvel P. Generators of the late cognitive potentials in auditory and visual oddball tasks. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 106 2 (1998) 156-164
36. Hasher L., and Zacks R.T. Working memory, comprehension, and aging: a review and a new view. Psychology of Learning and Motivation 22 (1988) 193-225
37. Hautzel H., Mottaghy F.M., Schmidt D., Zemb M., Shah N.J., Mϋller-Gärtner H.W., et al. Topographic segregation and convergence of verbal, object, shape and spatial working memory in humans. Neuroscience Letters 323 (2002) 156-160
38. Hazeltine E., Poldrack R., and Gabrieli J.D.E. Neural activation during response competition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 12 S2 (2000) 118-129
39. Hervey A.S., Epstein J.N., and Curry J.F. Neuropsychology of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A meta-analytic review. Neuropsychology 18 3 (2004) 485-503
40. Hester R., Murphy K., and Garavan H. Beyond common resources: The cortical basis for resolving task interference. NeuroImage 23 (2004) 202-212
41. Horn N.R., Dolan M., Elliott R., Deakin J.F.W., and Woodruff P.W.R. Response inhibition and impulsivity: An fMRI study. Neuropsychologia 41 (2003) 1959-1966
42. Jonides J., Smith E.E., Marshuetz C., Koeppe R.A., and Reuter-Lorenz P.A. Inhibition in verbal working memory revealed by brain activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95 14 (1998) 8410-8413
43. Kane M.J., and Engle R.W. Working-memory capacity, proactive interference, and divided attention: Limits on long-term memory retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 26 2 (2000) 336-358
44. Kane M.J., and Engle R.W. Working-memory capacity and the control of attention: The contributions of goal neglect, response competition, and task set to stroop interference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 132 1 (2003) 47-70
45. Kawashima R., Satoh R., Itoh H., Ono S., Furumoto S., Gotoh R., et al. Functional anatomy of GO/NO-GO discrimination and response selection-A PET study in man. Brain Research 728 (1996) 79-89
46. Kelly A.M.C., Hester R., Foxe J.J., Shpaner M., and Garavan H. Flexible cognitive control: Effects of individual differences and brief practice on a complex cognitive task. NeuroImage 31 (2006) 866-886
47. Klingberg T. Concurrent performance of two working memory tasks: potential mechanisms of interference. Cerebral Cortex 8 7 (1998) 593-601
48. Klingberg T., Kawashima R., and Roland P.E. Activation of multi-modal cortical areas underlies short-term memory. European Journal of Neuroscience 8 (1996) 1965-1971
49. Klingberg T., and Roland P.E. Interference between two concurrent tasks is associated with activation of overlapping fields in the cortex. Cognitive Brain Research 6 (1997) 1-8
50. Konishi S., Nakajima K., Uchida I., Sekihara K., and Miyashita Y. No-go dominant brain activity in human inferior prefrontal cortex revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. European Journal of Neuroscience 10 (1998) 1209-1213
51. Kornblum S., Hasbroucq T., and Osman A. Dimensional overlap. Cognitive basis for stimulus-response compatibility: A model and taxonomy. Psychological Review 97 2 (1990) 253-270
52. Langenecker S.A., and Nielson K.A. Frontal recruitment during response inhibition in older adults replicated with fMRI. NeuroImage 20 (2003) 1384-1392
53. Leung H.C., and Zhang J.X. Interference resolution in spatial working memory. NeuroImage 23 3 (2004) 1013-1019
54. Liddle P.F., Kiehl K.A., and Smith A.M. Event-related fMRI study of response inhibition. Human Brain Mapping 12 (2001) 100-109
55. Liu T.T. Efficiency, power, and entropy in event-related fMRI with multiple trial types. Part II: Designs of experiments. NeuroImage 21 (2004) 401-413
56. Logan G.D., and Zbrodoff N.J. Stroop-type interference: Congruity effects in color naming with typewritten responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 24 (1998) 978-992
57. McNab F., and Klingberg T. Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia control access to working memory. Nature Neuroscience 11 1 (2008) 103-107
58. Mesulam M.M. Large-scale neurocognitive networks and distributed processing for attention, memory, and language. Annals of Neurology 28 (1990) 597-613
59. Miyake A., Friedman N.P., Emerson M.J., Witzki A.H., and Howerter A. The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "frontal lobe" tasks: A latent variable analysis. Cognitive Psychology 41 (2000) 49-100
60. Mostofsky S.H., Schafer J.G.B., Abrams M.T., Goldberg M.C., Flower A.A., Boyce A., et al. fMRI evidence that the neural basis of response inhibition is task-dependent. Cognitive Brain Research 17 (2003) 419-430
61. Naidich T.P., Kang E., Fatterpekar G.M., Delman B.N., Gultekin S.H., Wolfe D., et al. The insula: Anatomic study and MR imaging display at 1.5 T. American Journal of Neuroradiology 25 (2004) 222-232
62. Nichols T., Brett M., Andersson J., Wager T., and Poline J.B. Valid conjunction inference with the minimum statistic. NeuroImage 25 (2004) 653-660
63. Nystrom L.E., Braver T.S., Sabb F.W., Delgado M.R., Noll D.C., and Cohen J.D. Working memory for letters, shapes and locations: fMRI evidence against stimulus-based regional organization in human prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage 11 (2000) 424-446
64. Oberauer K., and Kliegl R. Beyond resources: Formal models of complexity effects and age differences in working memory. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 13 12 (2001) 187-215
65. Owen A.M. Tuning into the temporal dynamics of brain activation using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Trends in Cognitive Sciences 1 4 (1997) 123-125
66. Owen A.M. The functional organization of working memory processes within human lateral frontal cortex: The contribution of functional neuroimaging. European Journal of Neuroscience 9 (1997) 1329-1339
67. Owen A.M., Evans A.C., and Petrides M. Evidence for a two-stage model of spatial working memory processing within the lateral frontal cortex: A positron emission tomography study. Cerebral Cortex 6 (1996) 31-38
68. Owen A.M., Herrod N.J., Menon D.K., Clark J.C., Downey S.P., Carpenter T.A., et al. Redefining the functional organization of working memory processes within human lateral prefrontal cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience 11 (1999) 567-574
69. Perlstein W.M., Dixit N.K., Carter C.S., Noll D.C., and Cohen J.D. Prefrontal cortex dysfunction mediates deficits in working memory and prepotent responding in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 53 1 (2003) 25-38
70. Peterson B.S., Kane M.J., Alexander G.M., Lacadie C., Skudlarski P., Leung H., et al. An event-related functional MRI study comparing interference effects in the Simon and Stroop tasks. Cognitive Brain Research 13 (2002) 427-440
71. Postle B.R., Berger J.S., and D'Esposito M. Functional neuroanatomical double dissociation of mnemonic and executive control processes contributing to working memory performance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96 22 (1999) 12959-12964
72. Postle B.R., Sten C.E., Rosen B.R., and Corkin S. An fMRI investigation of cortical contributions to spatial and nonspatial visual working memory. NeuroImage 11 (2000) 409-423
73. Roberts R.J., Hager L.D., and Heron C. Prefrontal cognitive processes: Working memory and inhibition in the antisaccade task. Journal of Experimental Psychology, General 123 (1994) 374-393
74. Roberts R.J., and Pennington B.F. An interactive framework for examining prefrontal cognitive processes. Developmental Neuropsychology 12 (1996) 105-126
75. Rubia K., Russell T., Overmeyer S., Brammer M.J., Bullmore E.T., Sharma T., et al. Mapping motor inhibition: Conjunction brain activations across different versions of go/no-go and stop tasks. NeuroImage 13 (2001) 250-261
76. Sala J.B., Rämä P., and Courtney S.M. Functional topography of a distributed neural system for spatial and nonspatial information maintenance in working memory. Neuropsychologia 41 (2003) 341-356
77. Smith E.E., and Jonides J. Neuroimaging analysis of human working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95 (1998) 12061-12068
78. Smith E.E., and Jonides J. Storage and executive processes in the frontal lobes. Science 283 (1999) 1657-1661
79. Smith E.E., Jonides J., and Koeppe R.A. Dissociating verbal and spatial working memory using PET. Cerebral Cortex 6 (1996) 11-20
80. Sylvester C.C., Wager T.D., Lacey S.C., Hernandez L., Nichols T.E., Smith E.E., et al. Switching attention and resolving interference: fMRI measures of executive functions. Neuropsychologia 41 (2003) 357-370
81. Todd J.J., and Marois R. Capacity limit of visual short-term memory in human posterior parietal cortex. Nature 428 (2004) 751-754
82. Unsworth N., Schrock J.C., and Engle R.W. Working memory capacity and the actisaccade task: Individual differences in voluntary saccade control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 30 6 (2004) 1302-1321
83. Van Veen V., Cohen J.D., Botvinick M.M., Stenger V.A., and Carter C.S. Anterior cingulate cortex, conflict monitoring, and levels of processing. NeuroImage 14 (2001) 1302-1308
84. Verté, S., Geurts, H. M., Roeyers, H., Oosterlaan, J., & Sergeant, J.A. (2006). The relationship of working memory, inhibition, and response variability in child psychopathology. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 151, 5-14.
85. Vogel E.K., McCollough A.W., and Machizawa M.G. Neural measures reveal individual differences in controlling access to working memory. Nature 438 (2005) 500-503
86. Wager T.D., Sylvester C.C., Lacey S.C., Nee D.E., Franklin M., and Jonides J. Common and unique components of response inhibition revealed by fMRI. NeuroImage 27 (2005) 323-340
87. Willcutt E.G., Doyle A.E., Nigg J.T., Faraone S.V., and Pennington B.F. Validity of the executive function theory of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A meta-analytic review. Biological Psychiatry 57 11 (2005) 1336-1346
88. Wilson S.P., and Kipp K. The development of efficient inhibition: Evidence from directed-forgetting tasks. Developmental Review 18 (1998) 86-123