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SUBMITTER: Xu KZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5747365 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neuron 20171207 6
Executive control involves the ability to flexibly inhibit or change an action when it is contextually inappropriate. Using the complimentary techniques of human fMRI and monkey electrophysiology in a context-dependent stop signal task, we found a functional double dissociation between the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (rVLPFC) and the bi-lateral frontal eye field (FEF). Different regions of rVLPFC were associated with context-based signal meaning versus intention to inhibit a response, ...[more]