ReviewBrain sciences2022
The Higher, More Complicated: The Neural Mechanism of Hierarchical Task Switching on Prefrontal Cortex.
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- The application of computerized quadrato motor training in enhancing balance and executive performance in stroke patients.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Intrinsic Learning Rather than External Difficulty Dominates Decision Performance: Integrated Evidence from the Drift-Diffusion Model and Random Forest Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Progressive Changes Between Thalamic Nuclei and Cortical Networks Across Stimulus-Response Learning.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- DT-HRL: Mastering Long-Sequence Manipulation with Reimagined Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Double task switching: An investigation into the effects of similarity and task-rule congruency on cognitive flexibility.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Measuring prefrontal brain activity during verbal fluency tasks using functional near infrared spectroscopy.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
Cognitive control is essential to daily life. Task switching is a classical paradigm used to study cognitive control. Previous researchers have studied the representation of different abstract hierarchical rules in the prefrontal cortex and explored the process mechanisms of task switching. However, the differences between the different hierarchical levels of task switching, especially the related neural mechanisms in the prefrontal cortex, are still unclear. This review focuses on and summarizes this issue. The present study suggests that the higher the hierarchical rule shifting or task switching, the more anterior the activation is on the prefrontal cortex. In addition, a high hierarchy of rules or tasks is more abstract, which leads to a larger switching cost.
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