SynthesisAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2011
Cognitive control and right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex: reflexive reorienting, motor inhibition, and action updating.
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330 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Evidence for non-selective response inhibition in uncertain contexts revealed by combined meta-analysis and Bayesian analysis of fMRI data.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
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- A neurocognitive model of perceptual decision-making on emotional signals.Human brain mapping · 2020Pooled it
- Neural activity during working memory encoding, maintenance, and retrieval: A network-based model and meta-analysis.Human brain mapping · 2019Pooled it
- The role of the cerebellum in adaptation: ALE meta-analyses on sensory feedback error.Human brain mapping · 2019Pooled it
- Human Pregenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex: Structural, Functional, and Connectional Heterogeneity.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2019Pooled it
- A domain-general brain network underlying emotional and cognitive interference processing: evidence from coordinate-based and functional connectivity meta-analyses.Brain structure & function · 2018Pooled it
- A supramodal role of the basal ganglia in memory and motor inhibition: Meta-analytic evidence.Neuropsychologia · 2018Pooled it
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- Acceptance versus reappraisal: Behavioral, autonomic, and neural effects.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Trial
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Abstract
Delineating the functional organization of the prefrontal cortex is central to advancing models of goal-directed cognition. Considerable evidence indicates that specific forms of cognitive control are associated with distinct subregions of the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), but less is known about functional specialization within the right VLPFC. We report a functional MRI meta-analysis of two prominent theories of right VLPFC function: stopping of motor responses and reflexive orienting to abrupt perceptual onsets. Along with a broader review of right VLPFC function, extant data indicate that stopping and reflexive orienting similarly recruit the inferior frontal junction (IFJ), suggesting that IFJ supports the detection of behaviorally relevant stimuli. By contrast, other right VLPFC subregions are consistently active during motor inhibition, but not reflexive reorienting tasks, with posterior-VLPFC being active during the updating of action plans and mid-VLPFC responding to decision uncertainty. These results highlight the rich functional heterogeneity that exists within right VLPFC.
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