The Higher, More Complicated: The Neural Mechanism of Hierarchical Task Switching on Prefrontal Cortex
Open Access
- 14 May 2022
- journal article
- review article
- Published by MDPI AG in Brain Sciences
- Vol. 12 (5), 645
- https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12050645
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.This publication has 57 references indexed in Scilit:
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