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Science 18 February 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5712, pp. 1059 - 1060
DOI: 10.1126/science.1109837
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Adaptive Coding

K. Richard Ridderinkhof and Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg

How does the brain monitor and control goal-directed behavior to obtain a desired response without making errors. In their Perspective, Ridderinkhof and van den Wildenberg discuss two new studies that increase our understanding of how regions, and even single neurons, in the frontal brain are able to implement cognitive control through dynamic adaptation of their firing patterns (Machens et al.; Brown et al.)

K. R. Ridderinkhof is in the Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam and Leiden University, the Netherlands. E-mail: k.r.ridderinkhof{at}uva.nl W. P. M. van den Wildenberg is in the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Cognition, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université de Provence, Marseille, France. E-mail: wery{at}dds.nl

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