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NEUROSCIENCE: Enhanced: Conflict and Cognitive Control
Kenji Matsumoto and Keiji Tanaka
When there is conflict regarding which action plan to execute in response to a sensory stimulus, the brain exerts greater cognitive control to try and resolve the conflict. In their Perspective, Matsumoto and Tanaka explain new work (Kerns et al.) showing that the detection of action-plan conflict by the anterior cingulate cortex leads to recruitment of greater cognitive control in the lateral prefrontal cortex.
The authors are in the Cognitive Brain Mapping Laboratory, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan. E-mail: matsumot{at}riken.jp
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John G. Kerns, Jonathan D. Cohen, Angus W. MacDonald, III, Raymond Y. Cho, V. Andrew Stenger, and Cameron S. Carter (13 February 2004) Science303 (5660), 1023.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1089910] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
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