TY - JOUR
T1 - Event-related potentials and neural oscillations dissociate levels of cognitive control
AU - Lu, Mingou
AU - Doñamayor, Nuria
AU - Münte, Thomas F.
AU - Bahlmann, Jörg
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to JB (BA 4871/1-1) and TFM, and Bundesministerium f?r Bildung und Forschung to TFM, and an intramural grant (E05-2014) of the University of L?beck to ND. ND is currently an honorary research fellow at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DO1915/1-1).
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© 2016 Elsevier B.V.
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PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - Recent models of human behavior suggest a hierarchical organization of cognitive control processes. These models assume that different sub-goals of cognitive control processes are nested in each other, such that higher-level sub-goals can only be accomplished when lower-level sub-goals have been realized. While the neuroanatomical localization of this organizational principle has already been successfully tested, the exact temporal nature remains to be explored. The present study applied event-related potentials (ERPs) and investigated neural oscillations during performance of three different nested cognitive control tasks. Results demonstrated a parametric modulation of the P300 component as well as beta-band (13–25 Hz) oscillations as a function of different levels of cognitive control. Moreover, conditions requiring flexible updating of information exhibited similar alpha-band (8–13 Hz) oscillations, which differed from the condition without flexible updating (low-level). These results suggest dissociable mechanisms of flexible information updating and complexity of cognitive control processes indexed by different oscillatory effects.
AB - Recent models of human behavior suggest a hierarchical organization of cognitive control processes. These models assume that different sub-goals of cognitive control processes are nested in each other, such that higher-level sub-goals can only be accomplished when lower-level sub-goals have been realized. While the neuroanatomical localization of this organizational principle has already been successfully tested, the exact temporal nature remains to be explored. The present study applied event-related potentials (ERPs) and investigated neural oscillations during performance of three different nested cognitive control tasks. Results demonstrated a parametric modulation of the P300 component as well as beta-band (13–25 Hz) oscillations as a function of different levels of cognitive control. Moreover, conditions requiring flexible updating of information exhibited similar alpha-band (8–13 Hz) oscillations, which differed from the condition without flexible updating (low-level). These results suggest dissociable mechanisms of flexible information updating and complexity of cognitive control processes indexed by different oscillatory effects.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.12.012
DO - 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.12.012
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 27979693
AN - SCOPUS:85006105588
SN - 0166-4328
VL - 320
SP - 154
EP - 164
JO - Behavioural Brain Research
JF - Behavioural Brain Research
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