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Conflicts are represented in a cognitive space to reconcile domain-general and domain-specific cognitive control

Yang, Guochun and Wu, Haiyan and Li, Qi and Liu, Xun and Fu, Zhongzheng and Jiang, Jiefeng (2023) Conflicts are represented in a cognitive space to reconcile domain-general and domain-specific cognitive control. . (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20230316-182206000.20

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Abstract

Cognitive control resolves conflict between task-relevant and -irrelevant information to enable goal-directed behavior. As conflict can arise from different sources (e.g., sensory input, internal representations), how a finite set of cognitive control processes can effectively address huge array of conflict remains a major challenge. We hypothesize that different conflict can be parameterized and represented as distinct points in a (low-dimensional) cognitive space, which can then be resolved by a limited set of cognitive control processes working along the dimensions. To test this hypothesis, we designed a task with five types of conflict that could be conceptually parameterized along one dimension. Over two experiments, both human performance and fMRI activity patterns in the right dorsolateral prefrontal (dlPFC) support that different types of conflict are organized in a cognitive space. The findings suggest that cognitive space can be a dimension reduction tool to effectively organize neural representations of conflict for cognitive control.


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Yang, Guochun0000-0002-0516-8772
Wu, Haiyan0000-0001-8869-6636
Liu, Xun0000-0003-1366-8926
Fu, Zhongzheng0000-0002-2572-6284
Jiang, Jiefeng0000-0002-4264-6382
Additional Information:The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY 4.0 International license. We thank Eliot Hazeltine for valuable comments on a previous version of this manuscript. The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the German Research Foundation (NSFC 62061136001/DFG TRR-169) to X.L. and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M650884) to G.Y. The authors have declared no competing interest.
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National Natural Science Foundation of China62061136001
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)TRR-169
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation2019M650884
DOI:10.1101/2023.02.13.528292
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