An insula-frontostriatal network mediates flexible cognitive control by adaptively predicting changing control demands

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jiang, Jiefeng ^a   Beck, Jeffrey ^b   Heller, Katherine ^a,c   Egner, Tobias ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOMINID; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTION;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROL DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; FACIAL RECOGNITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET;

EID: 84942342415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9165     Document Type: Article

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