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@article{citeulike:303054, abstract = {Adaptive goal-directed behavior involves monitoring of ongoing actions and performance outcomes, and subsequent adjustments of behavior and learning. We evaluate new findings in cognitive neuroscience concerning cortical interactions that subserve the recruitment and implementation of such cognitive control. A review of primate and human studies, along with a meta-analysis of the human functional neuroimaging literature, suggest that the detection of unfavorable outcomes, response errors, response conflict, and decision uncertainty elicits largely overlapping clusters of activation foci in an extensive part of the posterior medial frontal cortex (pMFC). A direct link is delineated between activity in this area and subsequent adjustments in performance. Emerging evidence points to functional interactions between the pMFC and the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC), so that monitoring-related pMFC activity serves as a signal that engages regulatory processes in the LPFC to implement performance adjustments.}, address = {Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, Netherlands. K.R.Ridderinkhof@uva.nl}, author = {Ridderinkhof, K. Richard and Ullsperger, Markus and Crone, Eveline A. and Nieuwenhuis, Sander}, citeulike-article-id = {303054}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1100301}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/306/5695/443}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15486290}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=15486290}, day = {15}, doi = {10.1126/science.1100301}, issn = {1095-9203}, journal = {Science (New York, N.Y.)}, keywords = {acc, control, fmri, frontal}, month = {October}, number = {5695}, pages = {443--447}, posted-at = {2005-08-24 22:51:58}, priority = {0}, title = {The role of the medial frontal cortex in cognitive control.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1100301}, volume = {306}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:303054 L3 - citeulike-article-id:303054 N2 - Adaptive goal-directed behavior involves monitoring of ongoing actions and performance outcomes, and subsequent adjustments of behavior and learning. We evaluate new findings in cognitive neuroscience concerning cortical interactions that subserve the recruitment and implementation of such cognitive control. A review of primate and human studies, along with a meta-analysis of the human functional neuroimaging literature, suggest that the detection of unfavorable outcomes, response errors, response conflict, and decision uncertainty elicits largely overlapping clusters of activation foci in an extensive part of the posterior medial frontal cortex (pMFC). A direct link is delineated between activity in this area and subsequent adjustments in performance. Emerging evidence points to functional interactions between the pMFC and the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC), so that monitoring-related pMFC activity serves as a signal that engages regulatory processes in the LPFC to implement performance adjustments. IS - 5695 JF - Science (New York, N.Y.) SN - 1095-9203 AD - Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, Netherlands. K.R.Ridderinkhof@uva.nl EP - 447 TI - The role of the medial frontal cortex in cognitive control. VL - 306 SP - 443 KW - acc KW - control KW - fmri KW - frontal AU - Ridderinkhof, Richard AU - Ullsperger, Markus AU - Crone, Eveline AU - Nieuwenhuis, Sander PY - 2004/10/15/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1100301 ER -