Architecture of fluid intelligence and working memory revealed by lesion mapping

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 485-494

  Barbey, Aron K ^a   Colom, Roberto ^b   Paul, Erick J ^a   Grafman, Jordan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid intelligence; Prefrontal cortex; Voxel based lesion symptom mapping; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIET NAM; WAR; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIETNAM CONFLICT;

EID: 84896028605     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0512-z     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Ackerman PL, Beier ME, Boyle MO (2002) Individual differences in working memory within a nomological network of cognitive and perceptual speed abilities. J Exp Psychol Gen 131:567-589
2. Baldo JV, Dronkers NF (2006) The role of inferior parietal and inferior frontal cortex in working memory. Neuropsychology 20:529-538 (Pubitemid 44358919)
3. Barbey AK, Krueger F, Grafman J (2009) An evolutionarily adaptive neural architecture for social reasoning. Trends Neurosci 32:603-610
4. Barbey AK, Koenigs M, Grafman J (2011) Orbitofrontal contributions to human working memory. Cereb Cortex 21:789-795
5. Barbey AK, Colom R, Solomon J, Krueger F, Forbes C, Grafman J (2012a) An integrative architecture for general intelligence and executive function revealed by lesion mapping. Brain 135:1154-1164
6. Barbey AK, Koenigs M, Grafman J (2012b) Dorsolateral prefrontal contributions to human working memory. Cortex (epub ahead of print)
7. Barbey AK, Colom R, Grafman J (2012c) Distributed neural system for emotional intelligence revealed by lesion mapping. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci (Epub ahead of print)
8. Basso A, De Renzi E, Faglioni P, Scotti G, Spinnler H (1973) Neuropsychological evidence for the existence of cerebral areas critical to the performance of intelligence tasks. Brain 96:715-728
9. Bates E, Wilson SM, Saygin AP, Dick F, Sereno MI, Knight RT, Dronkers NF (2003) Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping. Nat Neurosci 6:448-450 (Pubitemid 36514690)
10. Bechara A, Damasio AR, Damasio H, Anderson SW (1994) Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex. Cognition 50:7-15
11. Bennett CM, Miller MB (2010) How reliable are the results from functional magnetic resonance imaging? Ann N Y Acad Sci 1191:133-155
12. Black FW (1976) Cognitive deficits in patients with unilateral war-related frontal lobe lesions. J Clin Psychol 32:366-372
13. Blair RJ, Cipolotti L (2000) Impaired social response reversal. A case of 'acquired sociopathy'. Brain 123(Pt 6):1122-1141 (Pubitemid 30312105)
14. Botvinick MM, Braver TS, Barch DM, Carter CS, Cohen JD (2001) Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. Psychol Rev 108:624-652 (Pubitemid 33604139)
15. Bugg JM, Zook NA, Delosh EL, Davalos DB, Davis HP (2006) Age differences in fluid intelligence: contributions of general slowing and frontal decline. Brain Cogn 62:9-16 (Pubitemid 44374185)
16. Burgess PW, Shallice T (1996) Response suppression, initiation and strategy use following frontal lobe lesions. Neuropsychologia 34:263-272 (Pubitemid 26079004)
17. Carroll JB (1993) Human cognitive abilities: a survey of factor-analytic studies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
18. Cattell RB (1971) Abilities: their structure, growth, and action. Houghton Mifflin, Boston
19. Cohen JD, Perlstein WM, Braver TS, Nystrom LE, Noll DC, Jonides J, Smith EE (1997) Temporal dynamics of brain activation during a working memory task. Nature 386:604-608
20. Colom R, Rebollo I, Palacios A, Juan-Espinosa M, Kyllonen PC (2004) Working memory is (almost) perfectly predicted by g. Intelligence 32:277-296 (Pubitemid 38807891)
21. Colom R, Abad FJ, Rebollo I, Shih PC (2005) Memory span and general intelligence: a latent-variable approach. Intelligence 33:623-642 (Pubitemid 41644269)
22. Colom R, Jung RE, Haier RJ (2007) General intelligence and memory span: evidence for a common neuroanatomic framework. Cogn Neuropsychol 24:867-878
23. Colom R, Haier RJ, Head K, Alvarez-Linera J, Quiroga MA, Shih PC, Jung RE (2009) Gray matter correlates of fluid, crystallized, and spatial intelligence: testing the P-FIT model. Intelligence 37:124-135
24. Crone EA, Wendelken C, Donohue SE, Bunge SA (2006) Neural evidence for dissociable components of task-switching. Cereb Cortex 16:475-486
25. D'esposito M, Postle BR (1999) The dependence of span and delayed-response performance on prefrontal cortex. Neuropsychologia 37:1303-1315
26. D'esposito M, Cooney JW, Gazzaley A, Gibbs SE, Postle BR (2006) Is the prefrontal cortex necessary for delay task performance? Evidence from lesion and FMRI data. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 12:248-260
27. Dosenbach NU, Visscher KM, Palmer ED, Miezin FM, Wenger KK, Kang HC, Burgund ED, Grimes AL, Schlaggar BL, Petersen SE (2006) A core system for the implementation of task sets. Neuron 50:799-812 (Pubitemid 43775735)
28. Duncan J (2001) An adaptive coding model of neural function in prefrontal cortex. Nat Rev Neurosci 2:820-829
29. Duncan J (2010) The multiple-demand (MD) system of the primate brain: mental programs for intelligent behaviour. Trends Cogn Sci 14:172-179
30. Duncan J, Burgess P, Emslie H (1995) Fluid intelligence after frontal lobe lesions. Neuropsychologia 33:261-268
31. Duncan J, Emslie H, Williams P, Johnson R, Freer C (1996) Intelligence and the frontal lobe: the organization of goal-directed behavior. Cogn Psychol 30:257-303 (Pubitemid 126375751)
32. Eslinger PJ, Damasio AR (1985) Severe disturbance of higher cognition after bilateral frontal lobe ablation: patient EVR. Neurology 35:1731-1741 (Pubitemid 16222756)
33. Glascher J, Tranel D, Paul LK, Rudrauf D, Rorden C, Hornaday A, Grabowski T, Damasio H, Adolphs R (2009) Lesion mapping of cognitive abilities linked to intelligence. Neuron 61:681-691
34. Glascher J, Rudrauf D, Colom R, Paul LK, Tranel D, Damasio H, Adolphs R (2010) Distributed neural system for general intelligence revealed by lesion mapping. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:4705-4709
35. Gray JR, Chabris CF, Braver TS (2003) Neural mechanisms of general fluid intelligence. Nat Neurosci 6:316-322 (Pubitemid 36278291)
36. Haier RJ, Colom R, Schroeder DH, Condon CA, Tang C, Eaves E, Head K (2009) Gray matter and intelligence factors: is there a neurology? Intelligence 37:136-144
37. Isingrini M, Vazou F (1997) Relation between fluid intelligence and frontal lobe functioning in older adults. Int J Aging Hum Dev 45:99-109 (Pubitemid 27527840)
38. Jaeggi SM, Buschkuehl M, Jonides J, Perrig WJ (2008) Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:6829-6833 (Pubitemid 351754490)
39. Jaeggi SM, Studer-Luethi B, Buschkuehl M, Su YF, Jonides J, Perrig WJ (2010) The relationship between n-back performance and matrix reasoning - implications for training and transfer. Intelligence 38:625-635
40. Jaeggi SM, Buschkuehl M, Jonides J, Shah P (2011) Short- and long-term benefits of cognitive training. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:10081-10086
41. Jensen AR (1998) The g factor: the science of mental ability. Praeger, Westport, Conn
42. Johnson W, Bouchard TJ (2005) The structure of human intelligence: it is verbal, perceptual, and image rotation (VPR), not fluid and crystallized. Intelligence 33:393-416 (Pubitemid 40823845)
43. Jung RE, Haier RJ (2007) The Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) of intelligence: converging neuroimaging evidence. Behav Brain Sci 30:135-154 (discussion 154-187)
44. Kane MJ, Engle RW (2002) The role of prefrontal cortex in working-memory capacity, executive attention, and general fluid intelligence: an individual-differences perspective. Psychon Bull Rev 9:637-671
45. Karama S, Colom R, Johnson W, Deary IJ, Haier R, Waber DP, Lepage C, Ganjavi H, Jung R, Evans AC (2011) Cortical thickness correlates of specific cognitive performance accounted for by the general factor of intelligence in healthy children aged 6 to 18. Neuroimage 55:1443-1453
46. Koechlin E, Basso G, Pietrini P, Panzer S, Grafman J (1999) The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition. Nature 399:148-151
47. Koenigs M, Barbey AK, Postle BR, Grafman J (2009) Superior parietal cortex is critical for the manipulation of information in working memory. J Neurosci 29:14980-14986
48. Kroger JK, Sabb FW, Fales CL, Bookheimer SY, Cohen MS, Holyoak KJ (2002) Recruitment of anterior dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in human reasoning: a parametric study of relational complexity. Cereb Cortex 12:477-485 (Pubitemid 34578662)
49. Kyllonen PC, Christal RE (1990) Reasoning ability is (little more than) working-memory capacity. Intelligence 14:389-433
50. Makale M, Solomon J, Patronas NJ, Danek A, Butman JA, Grafman J (2002) Quantification of brain lesions using interactive automated software. Behav Res Methods Instr Comput 34:6-18
51. Martinez K, Burgaleta M, Roman FJ, Escorial S, Shih PC, Quiroga MA, Colom R (2011) Can fluid intelligence be reduced to 'simple' short-term storage? Intelligence 39:473-480
52. Miller EK, Cohen JD (2001) An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function. Annu Rev Neurosci 24:167-202 (Pubitemid 32695227)
53. Muller NG, Machado L, Knight RT (2002) Contributions of subregions of the prefrontal cortex to working memory: evidence from brain lesions in humans. J Cogn Neurosci 14:673-686 (Pubitemid 34761790)
54. Nyberg L, Marklund P, Persson J, Cabeza R, Forkstam C, Petersson KM, Ingvar M (2003) Common prefrontal activations during working memory, episodic memory, and semantic memory. Neuropsychologia 41:371-377 (Pubitemid 35365963)
55. Parkin AJ, Java RI (1999) Deterioration of frontal lobe function in normal aging: influences of fluid intelligence versus perceptual speed. Neuropsychology 13:539-545 (Pubitemid 29474642)
56. Ramnani N, Owen AM (2004) Anterior prefrontal cortex: insights into function from anatomy and neuroimaging. Nat Rev Neurosci 5:184-194 (Pubitemid 38252475)
57. Raymont V, Salazar AM, Lipsky R, Goldman D, Tasick G, Grafman J (2010) Correlates of posttraumatic epilepsy 35 years following combat brain injury. Neurology 75:224-229
58. Roca M, Parr A, Thompson R, Woolgar A, Torralva T, Antoun N, Manes F, Duncan J (2010) Executive function and fluid intelligence after frontal lobe lesions. Brain 133:234-247
59. Rombouts SA, Barkhof F, Hoogenraad FG, Sprenger M, Valk J, Scheltens P (1997) Test-retest analysis with functional MR of the activated area in the human visual cortex. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 18:1317-1322 (Pubitemid 30417714)
60. Semendeferi K, Armstrong E, Schleicher A, Zilles K, Van Hoesen GW (2001) Prefrontal cortex in humans and apes: a comparative study of area 10. Am J Phys Anthropol 114:224-241 (Pubitemid 32198528)
61. Shallice T, Burgess PW (1991) Deficits in strategy application following frontal lobe damage in man. Brain 114(Pt 2):727-741
62. Solomon J, Raymont V, Braun A, Butman JA, Grafman J (2007) User-friendly software for the analysis of brain lesions (ABLe). Comput Methods Progr Biomed 86:245-254 (Pubitemid 46661017)
63. Spearman C (1904) "General intelligence" objectively determined and measured. Am J Psychol 15:201-292
64. Spearman C (1928) The abilities of man. Science 68:38
65. Suss HM, Oberauer K, Wittmann WW, Wilhelm O, Schulze R (2002) Working-memory capacity explains reasoning ability - and a little bit more. Intelligence 30:261-288
66. Tsuchida A, Fellows LK (2009) Lesion evidence that two distinct regions within prefrontal cortex are critical for n-back performance in humans. J Cogn Neurosci 21:2263-2275
67. Tzourio-Mazoyer N, Landeau B, Papathanassiou D, Crivello F, Etard O, Delcroix N, Mazoyer B, Joliot M (2002) Automated anatomical labeling of activations in SPM using a macroscopic anatomical parcellation of the MNI MRI single-subject brain. Neuroimage 15:273-289 (Pubitemid 34852226)
68. Van Essen DC, Dierker DL (2007) Surface-based and probabilistic atlases of primate cerebral cortex. Neuron 56:209-225
69. Volle E, Kinkingnehun S, Pochon JB, Mondon K, Thiebaut De Schotten M, Seassau M, Duffau H, Samson Y, Dubois B, Levy R (2008) The functional architecture of the left posterior and lateral prefrontal cortex in humans. Cerebral Cortex 18:2460-2469
70. Wechsler D (1997) Wechsler adult intelligence test administration and scoring manual. The Psychology Corporation, San Antonio
71. Woods RP, Mazziotta JC, Cherry SR (1993) MRI-PET registration with automated algorithm. J Comput Assist Tomogr 17:536-546 (Pubitemid 23206731)
72. Woolgar A, Parr A, Cusack R, Thompson R, Nimmo-Smith I, Torralva T, Roca M, Antoun N, Manes F, Duncan J (2010) Fluid intelligence loss linked to restricted regions of damage within frontal and parietal cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:14899-14902