It is now recognized that subcortical regions
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The gap
While it is now recognized that subcortical regions can be involved in various cognitive domains, it remains unclear how they contribute to computations essential for higher-level cognitive processes such as endogenous attention and numeric
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Sourced from the abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 1998 and 2023, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 618 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Theta‐ and delta‐band EEG network dynamics during a novelty oddball task (2017) · Psychophysiology · cited 73× · doi
A recent cognitive model suggests that frontal-parietal and frontal-temporal interregional connectivity are related to attention/action selection and target-related memory updating during the P3, respectively, but empirical work testing this model is lacking.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: model frontal related recent cognitive suggests parietal temporal interregional connectivity attention action selection target memory - Suppression of Regional Cerebral Blood during Emotional versus Higher Cognitive Implications for Interactions between Emotion and Cognition (1998) · Cognition & Emotion · cited 529× · doi
Conversely, in some of the areas that appear to subserve cognitive functions, as the dorsal anterior cingulate and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortices, increases while performing attentionally demanding cognitive tasks, but during some experimentally induced and pathological emotional Although the specific nature of such reciprocal patterns of regional remains unclear, they may reflect an important cross-modal interaction during mental operations.
generalabstractevidence 3/5Keywords: cognitive conversely areas appear subserve functions dorsal anterior cingulate dorsolateral prefrontal cortices increases performing attentionally - Contributions of Lower Structures to Higher Cognition: Towards a Dynamic Network Model (2023) · Journal of Intelligence · cited 16× · doi
While it is now recognized that subcortical regions can be involved in various cognitive domains, it remains unclear how they contribute to computations essential for higher-level cognitive processes such as endogenous attention and numerical cognition.
generalabstractevidence 2/5Keywords: cognitive recognized subcortical regions involved various domains remains unclear contribute computations essential higher level processes
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