认知
工作记忆
心理学
任务正网络
扣带回前部
睡眠剥夺对认知功能的影响
神经科学
后扣带
前额叶皮质
背外侧前额叶皮质
功能磁共振成像
执行职能
默认模式网络
作者
Isabella A. Breukelaar,Leanne M. Williams,Cassandra Antees,Stuart M. Grieve,Sheryl Foster,Lavier Gomes,Mayuresh S. Korgaonkar
摘要
Abstract Cognitive control is one of the most important skills in day‐to‐day social and intellectual functioning but we are yet to understand the neural basis of the group of behaviors required to carry this out. Here, we probed changes over time in the brain network associated with cognitive control (the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the dorsal posterior parietal cortex, and the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex) using both behavioral assays and functional brain imaging during a selective working memory task in 69 healthy participants within the age range 18–38 years (mean: 25, SD : ±6), assessed twice, 2 years apart. We aimed to explore the relationship of changing network activation and connectivity with behavioral tasks associated with cognitive control in this otherwise neurodevelopmentally stable group. We found that increased connectivity between frontoparietal cognitive control network regions during the working memory task was associated with improved memory and executive functions over the 2‐year period and that this association was not impacted by age, gender, or baseline performance. These results provide evidence that changes in the functional organization of the cognitive control brain network occur despite the absence of neurodevelopment, aging or targeted cognitive training effects, and could modulate cognitive performance in early to mid‐adulthood. Understanding how and why this change is occurring could provide insights into the mechanisms through which cognitive control ability is cultivated over time. This could aid in the development of interventions in cases where cognitive control is impaired.
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