Prefrontal organization of cognitive control according to levels of abstraction

Brain Research

Volumn 1286, Issue , 2009, Pages 94-105

  Christoff, Kalina ^a   Keramatian, Kamyar ^a   Gordon, Alan M ^b   Smith, Rachelle ^a   Mädler, Burkhard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anagram; Cognitive complexity; Difficulty; Hierarchy; Mindset

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67949115526     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.05.096     Document Type: Article

References (111)

1. Allen D.N., Strauss G.P., Kemtes K.A., and Goldstein G. Hemispheric contributions to nonverbal abstract reasoning and problem solving. Neuropsychology 21 6 (2007) 713-720
2. Ashburner J., and Friston K.J. Nonlinear spatial normalization using basis functions. Hum. Brain Mapp. 7 4 (1999) 254-266
3. Badre D., and D'Esposito M. Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for a hierarchical organization of the prefrontal cortex. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 19 12 (2007) 2082-2099
4. Badre D., Hoffman J., Cooney J.W., and D'Esposito M. Hierarchical cognitive control deficits following damage to the human frontal lobe. Nat. Neurosci. 12 4 (2009) 515-522
5. Baker S.C., Rogers R.D., Owen A.M., Frith C.D., Dolan R.J., Frackowiak R.S.J., and Robbins T.W. Neural systems engaged by planning: a PET study of the Tower of London task. Neuropsychologia 34 6 (1996) 515-526
6. Barch D.M., Braver T.S., Nystrom L.E., Forman S.D., Noll D.C., and Cohen J.D. Dissociating working memory from task difficulty in human prefrontal cortex. Neuropsychologia 35 10 (1997) 1373-1380
7. Berman K.F., Ostrem J.L., Randolph C., Gold J., Goldberg T.E., Coppola R., Carson R.E., Herscovitch P., and Weinberger D.R. Physiological activation of a cortical network during performance of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: a positron emission tomography study. Neuropsychologia 33 8 (1995) 1027-1046
8. Binder J.R., Westbury C.F., McKiernan K.A., Possing E.T., and Medler D.A. Distinct brain systems for processing concrete and abstract concepts. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 17 6 (2005) 905-917
9. Bor D., Duncan J., Wiseman R.J., and Owen A.M. Encoding strategies dissociate prefrontal activity from working memory demand. Neuron 37 2 (2003) 361-367
10. Botvinick M.M. Multilevel structure in behaviour and in the brain: a model of Fuster's hierarchy. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 362 1485 (2007) 1615-1626
11. Botvinick M.M. Hierarchical models of behavior and prefrontal function. Trends Cogn. Sci. 12 5 (2008) 201-208
12. Bowden E.M., and Jung-Beeman M. Aha! Insight experience correlates with solution activation in the right hemisphere. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 10 3 (2003) 730-737
13. Bowden E.M., Jung-Beeman M., Fleck J., and Kounios J. New approaches to demystifying insight. Trends Cogn. Sci. 9 7 (2005) 322-328
14. Braver T.S., and Bongiolatti S.R. The role of frontopolar cortex in subgoal processing during working memory. Neuroimage 15 3 (2002) 523-536
15. Braver T.S., Cohen J.D., Nystrom L.E., Jonides J., Smith E.E., and Noll D.C. A parametric study of prefrontal cortex involvement in human working memory. Neuroimage 5 1 (1997) 49-62
16. Brodmann K. Beitraege zur histologischen Lokalisation der Grosshirnrinde. VI Mitteilung. Die Cortexgliederung des Menschen 10 (1908) 213-246
17. Bunge S.A., and Zelazo P.D. A brain-based account of the development of rule use in childhood. Curr. Dir. Psychol. Sci. 15 3 (2006) 118-121
18. Bunge S.A., Wallis J.D., Parker A., Brass M., Crone E.A., Hoshi E., and Sakai K. Neural circuitry underlying rule use in humans and nonhuman primates. J. Neurosci. 25 45 (2005) 10347-10350
19. Burgess P.W., Simons J.S., Dumontheil I., and Gilbert S.J. The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function. In: Duncan J., Phillips L., and McLeod P. (Eds). Measuring the Mind: Speed, Control, and Age (2005), Oxford University Press, Oxford 217-248
20. Burgess P.W., Dumontheil I., and Gilbert S.J. The gateway hypothesis of rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) function. Trends Cogn. Sci. 11 7 (2007) 290-298
21. Christoff K. Using and musing of abstract behavioural rules: peculiarities of prefrontal function in humans. Neuroimage 19 (2003) (2, AbsTrak ID: 18325.)
22. Christoff K., and Gabrieli J.D.E. The frontopolar cortex and human cognition: evidence for a rostrocaudal hierarchical organization within the human prefrontal cortex. Psychobiology 28 2 (2000) 168-186
23. Christoff K., and Owen A.M. Improving reverse neuroimaging inference: cognitive domain versus cognitive complexity. Trends Cogn. Sci. 10 8 (2006) 352-353
24. Christoff K., and Keramatian K. Abstraction of mental representations: theoretical considerations and neuroscientific evidence. In: Bunge S.A., and Wallis J.D. (Eds). The neuroscience of rule-guided behavior (2007), Oxford University Press, New York 107-126
25. Christoff K., Prabhakaran V., Dorfman J., Zhao Z., Kroger J.K., Holyoak K.J., and Gabrieli J.D.E. Rostrolateral prefrontal cortex involvement in relational integration during reasoning. Neuroimage 14 5 (2001) 1136-1149
26. Christoff K., Ream J.M., Geddes L.P.T., and Gabrieli J.D.E. Evaluating self-generated information: anterior prefrontal contributions to human cognition. Behav. Neurosci. 117 6 (2003) 1161-1168
27. Christoff K., Ream J.M., and Gabrieli J.D. Neural basis of spontaneous thought processes. Cortex 40 4-5 (2004) 623-630
28. Christoff K., Gordon A.M., Smallwood J., Smith R., and Schooler J.W. Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 106 21 (2009) 8719-8724
29. Christoff, K., Gordon, A.M., Smith, R., in press. The role of spontaneous thought in human cognition. In: Vartanian, O., Mandel, D.R. (Eds.), Neuroscience of Decision Making. Psychology Press.
30. Cohen J.D., Dunbar K., and McClelland J.L. On the control of automatic processes: a parallel distributed processing account of the Stroop effect. Psychol. Rev. 97 3 (1990) 332-361
31. Crone E.A., Wendelken C., van Leijenhorst L., Honomichl R.D., Christoff K., and Bunge S.A. Neurocognitive development of relational reasoning. Dev. Sci. 12 1 (2009) 55-66
32. Cupchik G.C. From perception to production: a multilevel analysis of the aesthetic process. In: Cupchik G.C., and Laszlo J. (Eds). Emerging Visions of the Aesthetic Process: Psychology, Semiology, Philosophy (1992), Cambridge University Press, New York 83-99
33. Cupchik G.C., and Winston A.S. Confluence and divergence in empirical aesthetics, philosophy, and mainstream psychology. In: Carterette E.C., and Friedman M.P. (Eds). Handbook of Perception & Cognition, Cognitive Ecology (1996), Academic Press, San Diego, CA 62-85
34. Cupchik G.C., Vartanian O., Crawley A., Mikulis D.J., 2009. Viewing artworks: contributions of cognitive control and perceptual facilitation to aesthetic experience. Brain Cogn. 70 (1), 84-91.
35. D'Esposito M., Postle B.R., Ballard D., and Lease J. Maintenance versus manipulation of information held in working memory: an event-related fMRI study. Brain Cogn. 41 1 (1999) 66-86
36. Deglin V.L., and Kinsbourne M. Divergent thinking styles of the hemispheres: how syllogisms are solved during transitory hemisphere suppression. Brain Cogn. 31 3 (1996) 285-307
37. Demb J.B., Desmond J.E., Wagner A.D., Vaidya C.J., Glover G.H., and Gabrieli J.D.E. Semantic encoding and retrieval in the left inferior prefrontal cortex: a functional MRI study of task difficulty and process specificity. J. Neurosci. 15 9 (1995) 5870-5878
38. Desimone R., and Duncan J. Neural mechanisms of selective visual attention. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 18 (1995) 193-222
39. Diamond A. Neuropsychological insights into the meaning of object concept development. In: Carey S., and Gelman R. (Eds). The Epigenesis of Mind: Essays on Biology and Knowledge (1991), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ 67-110
40. Dias R., Robbins T.W., and Roberts A.C. Dissociation in prefrontal cortex of affective and attentional shifts. Nature 380 6569 (1996) 69-72
41. Dias R., Robbins T.W., and Roberts A.C. Dissociable forms of inhibitory control within prefrontal cortex with an analog of the Wisconsin Card Sort Test: restriction to novel situations and independence from "on-line" processing. J. Neurosci. 17 23 (1997) 9285-9297
42. Dominowski R.L., and Ekstrand B.R. Direct and associative priming in anagram solving. J. Exp. Psychol. 74 1 (1967) 84-86
43. Duncan J. An adaptive coding model of neural function in prefrontal cortex. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2 11 (2001) 820-829
44. Duncan J., and Owen A.M. Common regions of the human frontal lobe recruited by diverse cognitive demands. Trends Cogn. Sci. 23 10 (2000) 475-483
45. Duncan J., Burgess P., and Emslie H. Fluid intelligence after frontal lobe lesions. Neuropsychologia 33 3 (1995) 261-268
46. Duncan J., Emslie H., Williams P., Johnson R., and Freer C. Intelligence and the frontal lobe: the organization of goal-directed behavior. Cogn. Psychol. 30 3 (1996) 257-303
47. Duncan J., Seltz R.J., Kolodny J., Bor D., Herzog H., Ahmed A., Newell F.N., and Emslie H. A neural basis for general intelligence. Science 289 5478 (2000) 457-460
48. Edmister W.B., Talavage T.M., Ledden P.J., and Weisskoff R.M. Improved auditory cortex imaging using clustered volume acquisitions. Hum. Brain Mapp. 7 2 (1999) 89-97
49. Everling S., Tinsley C.J., Gaffan D., and Duncan J. Filtering of neural signals by focused attention in the monkey prefrontal cortex. Nat. Neurosci. 5 7 (2002) 671-676
50. Fischer K.W., and Rose S.P. Dynamic development of coordination of components in brain and behavior: a framework for theory and research. In: Dawson G., and Fischer K.W. (Eds). Human Behavior and the Developing Brain (1994), Guilford Press, New York, NY 3-66
51. Fischer K.W., and Rose S.P. Dynamic growth cycles of brain and cognitive development. In: Thatcher R.W., Lyon G.R., Rumsey J., and Krasnegor N. (Eds). Developmental Neuroimaging: Mapping the Development of Brain and Behavior (1996), Academic Press, San Diego, CA 263-279
52. Fischer K.W., and Bidell T.R. Dynamic development of action and thought. In: Damon W., and Lerner R.M. (Eds). Theoretical Models of Human Development. Handbook of Child Psychology (2006), John Wiley & Sons Inc, Hoboken, NJ 313-399
53. Fischl B., Sereno M.I., and Dale A.M. Cortical surface-based analysis. II: Inflation, flattening, and a surface-based coordinate system. Neuroimage 9 2 (1999) 195-207
54. Fletcher P.C., and Henson R.N.A. Frontal lobes and human memory: insights from functional neuroimaging. Brain 124 5 (2001) 849-881
55. Friston K.J., Jezzard P., and Turner R. Analysis of functional MRI time-series. Hum. Brain Mapp. 1 (1994) 153-171
56. Friston K.J., Holmes A.P., Worsley K.J., Poline J.P., Frith C.D., and Frackowiak R.S.J. Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: a general linear approach. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2 4 (1995) 189-210
57. Fuster J.M. The Prefrontal Cortex. Anatomy, Physiology and Neuropsychology of the Frontal Lobe (1980), Raven Press, New York
58. Gilbert S.J., Spengler S., Simons J.S., Frith C.D., and Burgess P.W. Differential functions of lateral and medial rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10) revealed by brain-behavior associations. Cereb. Cortex 16 12 (2006) 1783-1789
59. Gilhooly K.J., Gilhooly K.J., and Murphy P. Differentiating insight from non-insight problems. Think. Reasoning 11 3 (2005) 279
60. Goel V., and Dolan R.J. Functional neuroanatomy of three-term relational reasoning. Neuropsychologia 39 9 (2001) 901-909
61. Goel V., and Vartanian O. Dissociating the roles of right ventral lateral and dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex in generation and maintenance of hypotheses in set-shift problems. Cereb. Cortex 15 8 (2005) 1170-1177
62. Goldberg E., and Bilder R.M. the frontal lobes and hierarchical organization of cognitive control. In: Perecman E. (Ed). The Frontal Lobes Revisited (1987), IRBN Press, New York 159-187
63. Goldman-Rakic P.S. Circuitry of primate prefrontal cortex and regulation of behavior by representational memory. In: Plum F., and Mountcastle V.B. (Eds). Handbook of Physiology (1987), APS, Bethesda, MD 373-417
64. Goldstein K. The mental changes due to frontal lobe damage. J. Psychol. 17 (1944) 187-208
65. Gollwitzer P.M. Action phases and mind-sets. In: Higgins E.T., and Sorrentino R.M. (Eds). Handbook of Motivation and Cognition: Foundations of Social Behavior Vol. 2 (1990), Guilford Press, New York, NY 53-92
66. Greeno J.G. Natures of problem solving abilities. In: Estes W.K. (Ed). Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes (1978), John Wiley and Sons, New York 239-270
67. Han S., Huettel S.A., and Dobbins I.G. Rule-dependent prefrontal cortex activity across episodic and perceptual decisions: an fMRI investigation of the criterial classification account. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 21 5 (2009) 922-937
68. Jung-Beeman M., Bowden E.M., Haberman J., Frymiare J.L., Arambel-Liu S., Greenblatt R., Reber P.J., and Kounios J. Neural activity when people solve verbal problems with insight. PLoS Biol. 2 4 (2004) E97
69. Koechlin E., Basso G., Pietrini P., Panzer S., and Grafman J. The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition. Nature 399 6732 (1999) 148-151
70. Koechlin E., Ody C., and Kouneiher F. The architecture of cognitive control in the human prefrontal cortex. Science 302 5648 (2003) 1181-1185
71. Kounios J., Frymiare J.L., Bowden E.M., Fleck J.I., Subramaniam K., Parrish T.B., and Jung-Beeman M. The prepared mind: neural activity prior to problem presentation predicts subsequent solution by sudden insight. Psychol. Sci. 17 10 (2006) 882-890
72. Kounios J., Fleck J.I., Green D.L., Payne L., Stevenson J.L., Bowden E.M., and Jung-Beeman M. The origins of insight in resting-state brain activity. Neuropsychologia 46 1 (2008) 281-291
73. Kroger J.K., Sabb F.W., Fales C.L., Bookheimer S.Y., Cohen M.S., and Holyoak K.J. Recruitment of anterior dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in human reasoning: a parametric study of relational complexity. Cereb. Cortex 12 5 (2002) 477-485
74. Kucera H., and Francis W.N. Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English (1967), Brown University Press, Providence, RI
75. Luria A.R. Higher Cortical Functions in Man (1966), Tavistock Publications, London
76. Mar R.A., and Oatley K. The function of fiction is the abstraction and simulation of social experience. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. 3 3 (2008) 173-192
77. Metcalfe J., and Wiebe D. Intuition in insight and noninsight problem solving. Mem. Cogn. 15 3 (1987) 238-246
78. Miller E.K. The prefrontal cortex and cognitive control. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 1 1 (2000) 59-65
79. Miller E.K., and Cohen J.D. An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 24 (2001) 167-202
80. Mischel W., Shoda Y., and Rodriguez M.L. Delay of gratification in children. Science 244 4907 (1989) 933-938
81. Monti M.M., Osherson D.N., Martinez M.J., and Parsons L.M. Functional neuroanatomy of deductive inference: a language-independent distributed network. Neuroimage 37 3 (2007) 1005-1016
82. Murray D.J., and Mastronardi L.L. Anagram solution times, word length, and type of accessory clue. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 5 2 (1975) 119-121
83. O'Reilly R.C., Noelle D.C., Braver T.S., and Cohen J.D. Prefrontal cortex and dynamic categorization tasks: representational organization and neuromodulatory control. Cereb. Cortex 12 3 (2002) 246-257
84. Paivio A., Yuille J.C., and Madigan S.A. Concreteness, imagery, and meaningfulness values for 925 nouns. J. Exp. Psychol. 76 (1), Supplement (1968) 1-25
85. Pandya D.N., and Barnes C.L. Architecture and connections of the frontal lobe. In: Perecman E. (Ed). The Frontal Lobes Revisited (1987), IRBN Press, New York 41-72
86. Petrides M. Lateral prefrontal cortex: architectonic and functional organization. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 360 1456 (2005) 781-795
87. Pruessman K., Weiger M., Scheidegger M., and Boesiger P. SENSE - sensitivity encoding for fast MRI. Magn. Reson. Med. 42 (1999) 952-962
88. Ramnani N., and Owen A.M. Anterior prefrontal cortex: insights into function from anatomy and neuroimaging. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 5 3 (2004) 184-194
89. Reynolds, J.R., O'Reilly, R.C., in press. Developing PFC representations using reinforcement learning. Cognition. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2009.05.015.
90. Richardson J.T., and Johnson P.B. Models of anagram solution. Bull. Psychon. Soci. 16 (1980) 247-250
91. Rougier N.P., Noelle D.C., Braver T.S., Cohen J.D., and O'Reilly R.C. Prefrontal cortex and flexible cognitive control: rules without symbols. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102 20 (2005) 7338-7343
92. Rypma B., Prabhakaran V., Desmond J.E., Glover G.H., and Gabrieli J.D. Load-dependent roles of frontal brain regions in the maintenance of working memory. Neuroimage 9 2 (1999) 216-226
93. Safren M.A. Associations, sets, and the solution of word problems. J. Exp. Psychol. 64 1 (1962) 40-45
94. Sakai K., and Passingham R.E. Prefrontal interactions reflect future task operations. Nat. Neurosci. 6 1 (2003) 75-81
95. Scheef L., Daamen D., Fehse U., Landsberg M.W., Granath D.O., and Effenberg A.O. Combining SPARSE fMRI designs with SENSE at high field strength. Fortschr. Röntgenstr. (2005) 178
96. Schuberth R.E., Spoehr K.T., and Haertel R.J. Solving anagrams: category priming and the differential availability of category solutions. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 31 4 (1979) 599-607
97. Seidenstadt R.M. Category label and list-item priming in anagram solving. Psychol. Rep. 51 1 (1982) 207-211
98. Shallice T. From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure (1988), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
99. Shulman G.L., Fiez J.A., Corbetta M., Buckner R.L., Miezin F.M., Raichle M.E., and Petersen S.E. Common blood flow changes across visual tasks: II. Decreases in cerebral cortex. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 9 5 (1997) 648-663
100. Smith E.E., and Jonides J. Working memory: a view from neuroimaging. Cogn. Psychol. 33 1 (1997) 5-42
101. Smith R., Keramatian K., and Christoff K. Localizing the rostrolateral prefrontal cortex at the individual level. Neuroimage 36 (2007) 1387-1396
102. In: Sternberg R.J., and Davidson J.E. (Eds). The Nature of Insight (1995), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
103. Studer T., and Hubner R. The direction of hemispheric asymmetries for object categorization at different levels of abstraction depends on the task. Brain. Cogn. 67 2 (2008) 197-211
104. Talairach J., and Tournoux P. Co-Planar Stereotaxic Atlas of the Human Brain (1988), Thieme Medical Publishers, Stuttgart, New York
105. Trope Y., Trope Y., and Fishbach A. Counteractive self-control in overcoming temptation. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 79 4 (2000) 493
106. van den Heuvel O.A., Groenewegen H.J., Barkhof F., Lazeron R.H., van Dyck R., and Veltman D.J. Frontostriatal system in planning complexity: a parametric functional magnetic resonance version of Tower of London task. Neuroimage 18 2 (2003) 367-374
107. Van Essen D.C., Drury H.A., Joshi S., and Miller M.I. Functional and structural mapping of human cerebral cortex: solutions are in the surfaces. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 95 3 (1998) 788-795
108. Vartanian O., and Goel V. Task constraints modulate activation in right ventral lateral prefrontal cortex. Neuroimage 27 4 (2005) 927-933
109. Wallis J.D., Anderson K.C., and Miller E.K. Single neurons in prefrontal cortex encode abstract rules. Nature 411 6840 (2001) 953-956
110. Wendelken C., Nakhabenko D., Donohue S.E., Carter C.S., and Bunge S.A. "Brain is to thought as stomach is to ??": investigating the role of rostrolateral prefrontal cortex in relational reasoning. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 20 4 (2008) 682-693
111. Wilson M.D., 1988. The MRC Psycholinguistic Database: Machine Readable Dictionary, Version 2. 20, 6-11.