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- Foundations
- Aspects of Cognition
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2. Visual perception and spatial awareness
- Prof. Marlene Behrmann
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3. Attention
- Dr. Ronald Rensink
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4. The neural bases of cognitive control
- Prof. Jonathan Cohen
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5. Ready, set, action: cortical control of movement
- Prof. Richard Ivry
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6. Language production and comprehension
- Prof. Gary Dell
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7. The cognitive neuroscience of reading and dyslexia
- Dr. Anna Woollams
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8. Semantic cognition: a cognitive neuroscience approach
- Prof. Matthew Lambon-Ralph
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9. Memory and its neural basis
- Prof. James McClelland
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11. Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Prof. Dorothy V. M. Bishop
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12. The neurobiology of decision making: a window on cognition
- Prof. Michael N. Shadlen
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13. The social brain and its development
- Prof. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
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14. The neurobiology of consciousness
- Prof. Christof Koch
Printable Handouts
Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- A definition for cognitive control
- Cognitive control
- A simple example (1)
- A simple example (2)
- Model of the stroop task (1)
- Model of the stroop task (2)
- Guided activation theory (1)
- Guided activation theory (2)
- Limitation
- Challenges
- How do representations develop?
- Adjustments made in the degree of control
- Control representations maintenance w/in PFC
- Attractors and interference
- How are control representations updated?
- Gated attractor network
- Dopamine as a gating mechanism (1)
- Timing of phasic DA signal
- Dopamine as a gating mechanism (2)
- The "homunculus" problem
- Adaptive updating of control
- Computational validation
- AX-CPT: cue, delay and target
- Timing of gating signal as function of training
- More detailed model of gating mechanism
- Empirical validation (1)
- Canonical task
- Empirical validation (2)
- fMRI: localization of context representations
- Empirical validation (3)
- EEG: timing of gating signal
- Empirical validation (4)
- TMS: disruption of gating event (1)
- TMS: disruption of gating event (2)
- Empirical validation (5)
- fMRI identification of updating-related VTA signal
- Summary
- Some current challenges and future directions
- Acknowledgements
Topics Covered
- Model of the Stroop task
- Guided activation theory
- How representations develop
- Control representations
- Attractors and interference
- Gated attractor network
- Dopamine as a gating mechanism
- Timing of phasic DA signal
- The "homunculus" problem
- Adaptive updating of control
- AX-CPT: cue, delay and target
- Timing of gating signal as function of training
- Canonical task
- fMRI: localization of context representations
- EEG: timing of gating signal
- TMS: disruption of gating event
- fMRI identification of updating-related VTA signal
Talk Citation
Cohen, J. (2012, July 5). The neural bases of cognitive control [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 19, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/ZWXR2115.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
- Published on July 5, 2012
Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Jonathan Cohen has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.