TY - JOUR
T1 - Monitoring Demands for Executive Control
T2 - Shared Functions between Human and Nonhuman Primates
AU - Mansouri, Farshad A.
AU - Egner, Tobias
AU - Buckley, Mark J.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Fifteen years ago, an influential model proposed that the human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) detects conflict and induces adaptive control of behavior. Over the years support for this model has been mixed, in particular due to divergent findings in human versus nonhuman primates. We here review recent findings that suggest greater commonalities across species. These include equivalent behavioral consequences of conflict and similar neuronal signals in the dACC, but also a common failure of dACC lesions to reliably abolish conflict-driven behavior. We conclude that conflict might be one among many drivers of adjustments in executive control and that the ACC might be just one component of overlapping distributed systems involved in context-dependent learning and behavioral control.
AB - Fifteen years ago, an influential model proposed that the human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) detects conflict and induces adaptive control of behavior. Over the years support for this model has been mixed, in particular due to divergent findings in human versus nonhuman primates. We here review recent findings that suggest greater commonalities across species. These include equivalent behavioral consequences of conflict and similar neuronal signals in the dACC, but also a common failure of dACC lesions to reliably abolish conflict-driven behavior. We conclude that conflict might be one among many drivers of adjustments in executive control and that the ACC might be just one component of overlapping distributed systems involved in context-dependent learning and behavioral control.
KW - anterior cingulate cortex
KW - conflict monitoring
KW - executive control
KW - nonhuman primate
KW - prefrontal cortex
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85007578568&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tins.2016.11.001
DO - 10.1016/j.tins.2016.11.001
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:85007578568
VL - 40
SP - 15
EP - 27
JO - Trends in Neurosciences
JF - Trends in Neurosciences
SN - 0166-2236
IS - 1
ER -