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. 2006 Dec;10(12):529-32.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.10.006. Epub 2006 Oct 30.

Extracting core components of cognitive control

Todd S Braver  1 , Deanna M Barch
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Extracting core components of cognitive control

Todd S Braver et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2006 Dec.

Abstract

The facility with which humans perform and shift among a wide variety of cognitive tasks seems to indicate a mechanism for entering into a task-dependent mode or set. However, little is known about the neural systems that subserve task control. A recent neuroimaging study by Dosenbach et al. offers a set of novel methodological tools to examine this issue and uncovers new candidate brain regions for a core system that might implement task sets.

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