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To do or not to do: the neural signature of self-controlMarcel Brass
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
J Neurosci 27:9141-5. 2007..The mental control of action has an enduring scientific interest, linked to the philosophical concept of "free will." Our results identify a candidate brain area that reflects the crucial decision to do or not to do...
Inefficient cognitive control in adult ADHD: evidence from trial-by-trial Stroop test and cued task switching performanceJoseph A King
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Cognitive Neurology, Stephanstr, 1a, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Behav Brain Funct 3:42. 2007..abstract:..
The what, when, whether model of intentional actionMarcel Brass
Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent, Belgium
Neuroscientist 14:319-25. 2008..Based on this distinction, the authors review some key findings on intentional action and provide neuroscientific evidence for the What, When, Whether (WWW) model of intentional action...
Neural correlates of overcoming interference from instructed and implemented stimulus-response associationsMarcel Brass
Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
J Neurosci 29:1766-72. 2009..This indicates that instructed S-R mappings share some properties with implemented S-R mappings but that they are lacking the motor-related properties of implemented mappings...
Inhibition of imitative behaviour and social cognitionMarcel Brass
Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:2359-67. 2009..Finally, we propose a hypothesis stating that the control of shared representations might be the missing link between functions of the mirror system and mental state attribution...
The hidden side of intentional action: the role of the anterior insular cortexMarcel Brass
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
Brain Struct Funct 214:603-10. 2010..AIC is therefore a key structure for the adaptive, affective training of the individual will, on which human society depends...
Investigating action understanding: inferential processes versus action simulationMarcel Brass
Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Curr Biol 17:2117-21. 2007..Our findings support the assumption that action understanding in novel situations is primarily mediated by an inferential interpretive system rather than the mirror system...
Minimizing motor mimicry by myself: self-focus enhances online action-control mechanisms during motor contagionStephanie Spengler
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Independent Junior Research Group Body and Self, Leipzig, Germany
Conscious Cogn 19:98-106. 2010..This indicates that a self-focus provoking situation can enhance online action-control mechanisms, needed to resist unintentional motor contagion tendencies and thereby enables a modulation of automatic mirroring responses...
Intentional inhibition: how the "veto-area" exerts controlSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Hum Brain Mapp 30:2834-43. 2009..This view of dFMC is consistent with a new view of self-control as a key stage in a cognitive-motor interface...
The implementation of verbal instructions: an fMRI studyEgbert Hartstra
Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Hum Brain Mapp 32:1811-24. 2011..Therefore, we conclude that the implementation of verbal instructions results from an interplay of a brain areas that represent novel rulelike information in domain general terms and brain areas that are specific to S-R rules...
Planning not to do something: Does intending not to do something activate associated sensory consequences?Simone Kühn
Ghent University, Belgium
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 10:454-9. 2010....
The neural correlates of intending not to do somethingSimone Kühn
Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
J Neurophysiol 101:1913-20. 2009....
Neural correlates of emotional synchronySimone Kühn
Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology and Clinical Experimental Psychology, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 6:368-74. 2011..However, incongruent emotional states activated the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as well as posterior superior temporal gyrus/sulcus, both playing a role in conflict processing...
Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brainChun Siong Soon
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Nat Neurosci 11:543-5. 2008..This delay presumably reflects the operation of a network of high-level control areas that begin to prepare an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness...
Contextual movement constraints of others modulate motor preparation in the observerRoman Liepelt
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Cognitive Neurology, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Neuropsychologia 47:268-75. 2009..Our findings suggest that observed environmental constraints are automatically mapped onto the observer's motor system. Such a mapping of motor restraints might facilitate action understanding...
The role of the preSMA and the rostral cingulate zone in internally selected actionsVeronika A Mueller
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychology, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Neuroimage 37:1354-61. 2007..In contrast to previous studies, the preSMA showed equal activity in both conditions and thus did not differentiate between the two modes of action selection. This suggests a primary role for the RCZ in internally selected actions...
How do we infer others' goals from non-stereotypic actions? The outcome of context-sensitive inferential processing in right inferior parietal and posterior temporal cortexRoman Liepelt
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Cognitive Neurology, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Neuroimage 43:784-92. 2008..Our findings support the idea that goal inference processing for non-stereotypic actions is primarily mediated by reasoning about action and context rather than by a direct mapping process via the mirror system...
When hearing turns into playing: movement induction by auditory stimuli in pianistsUlrich C Drost
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychology, Munich, Germany
Q J Exp Psychol A 58:1376-89. 2005..Thus, our results show that in expert pianists potential action effects are able to induce corresponding actions, which demonstrates the existence of acquired action-effect associations in pianists...
Top-down modulation of motor priming by belief about animacyRoman Liepelt
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychology, Leipzig, Germany
Exp Psychol 57:221-7. 2010..The stronger motor priming effect for the biological agent suggests that the "direct matching system" is tuned to represent actions of animate agents...
Busy doing nothing: evidence for nonaction--effect bindingSimone Kühn
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Psychon Bull Rev 16:542-9. 2009..Moreover, we demonstrate that nonactions have to be initiated voluntarily in order to elicit nonaction-effect binding...
When do we simulate non-human agents? Dissociating communicative and non-communicative actionsRoman Liepelt
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychology, Leipzig, Germany
Cognition 115:426-34. 2010..These findings suggest that biological tuning of motor simulation is highly action-selective and depends on whether the observed behavior appears to be driven by a reasonable goal...
Internally generated and directly cued task sets: an investigation with fMRIBirte U Forstmann
Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Neuropsychologia 43:943-52. 2005..This is suggested to reflect a functional gradient in anterior-posterior direction which is linked to the relative degree of required endogenous control...
Preparing or executing the wrong task: the influence on switch effectsCharlotte Desmet
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, Ghent, Belgium
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 65:1172-84. 2012..Taken together, our data extend current accounts of task switching by showing that the preparatory processes occurring before the response on trial n influence the switch cost on trial n + 1...
Functional mechanisms involved in the internal inhibition of taboo wordsEls Severens
Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:431-5. 2012..This finding strongly suggests that external social rules become internalized and act as a stop-signal...
Challenging a decade of brain research on task switching: brain activation in the task-switching paradigm reflects adaptation rather than reconfiguration of task setsWouter De Baene
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Hum Brain Mapp 33:639-51. 2012..Therefore, our results call the classical reconfiguration interpretation into question and provide first evidence for adaptation of abstract task representations...
Cue-switch effects do not rely on the same neural systems as task-switch effectsWouter De Baene
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, Ghent 9000, Belgium
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 11:600-7. 2011....
The inhibition of imitative and overlearned responses: a functional double dissociationMarcel Brass
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Cognitive Neurology, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Neuropsychologia 43:89-98. 2005..The only frontal brain area that showed an overlap was located in the right inferior frontal gyrus and is probably related to the generation of the stop signal...
Cognitive control in the posterior frontolateral cortex: evidence from common activations in task coordination, interference control, and working memoryJan Derrfuss
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neurology, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Neuroimage 23:604-12. 2004..In particular, the results provide evidence for the assumption that, in the frontolateral cortex, not only the middorsolateral region but also the IFJ plays an important role in cognitive control...
Control of shared representations relies on key processes involved in mental state attributionStephanie Spengler
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 30:3704-18. 2009..Our findings support the assumption of shared key processes and suggest a novel link between embodied and social cognition...
Who comes first? The role of the prefrontal and parietal cortex in cognitive controlMarcel Brass
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1367-75. 2005....
The what and how components of cognitive controlWouter De Baene
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Neuroimage 63:203-11. 2012....
Whodunnit? Electrophysiological correlates of agency judgementsSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
PLoS ONE 6:e28657. 2011....
When the brain tames the tongue: covert editing of inappropriate languageEls Severens
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Psychophysiology 48:1252-7. 2011..This component has previously been interpreted as reflecting conflict. These results indicate that taboo utterances can indeed be detected and corrected internally...
The role of the inferior frontal junction area in cognitive controlMarcel Brass
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Trends Cogn Sci 9:314-6. 2005..This region has been termed the inferior frontal junction area and can be functionally and structurally distinguished from mid-DLPFC...
When doing nothing is an option: the neural correlates of deciding whether to act or notSimone Kühn
Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology, Gent, Belgium
Neuroimage 46:1187-93. 2009..This finding strongly supports the assumption that intentionally not acting can be considered as a mode of action...
Neural and behavioral correlates of intentional actionsVeronika Krieghoff
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Neuropsychologia 49:767-76. 2011..stimulus-based action control. Second, an anterior-posterior dimension related to more abstract vs. specific decisions of action parameters...
Retrospective construction of the judgement of free choiceSimone Kühn
Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Conscious Cogn 18:12-21. 2009..Our data support the retrospective account of intentional action. Furthermore, we introduce an experimental approach that objectifies introspective judgments of awareness of intention...
Testing the connection of the mirror system and speech: how articulation affects imitation in a simple response taskSimone Kühn
Department of Cognitive Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Neuropsychologia 46:1513-21. 2008..These findings provide strong experimental support for the assumption that language production and imitation share common functional mechanisms...
Voluntary selection of task sets revealed by functional magnetic resonance imagingBirte U Forstmann
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
J Cogn Neurosci 18:388-98. 2006..Taken together, these findings indicate that distinct brain areas are involved in the voluntary selection of abstract task set information...
Imitation: is cognitive neuroscience solving the correspondence problem?Marcel Brass
Department of Cognitive Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Trends Cogn Sci 9:489-95. 2005..This imitative capacity depends on learned perceptual-motor links. Finally, mechanisms distinguishing self from other are implicated in the inhibition of imitative behaviour...
Involvement of the inferior frontal junction in cognitive control: meta-analyses of switching and Stroop studiesJan Derrfuss
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 25:22-34. 2005..Finally, our results demonstrate how quantitative meta-analyses can be used to test hypotheses about the involvement of specific brain regions in cognitive control...
"Keep calm and carry on": structural correlates of expressive suppression of emotionsSimone Kühn
Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
PLoS ONE 6:e16569. 2011....
Was it me or was it you? How the sense of agency originates from ideomotor learning revealed by fMRIStephanie Spengler
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Neuroimage 46:290-8. 2009....
Error adaptation in mental arithmeticCharlotte Desmet
Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, Ghent, Belgium
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 65:1059-67. 2012..No support for conflict adaptation in mental arithmetic was found. Implications for current theories of conflict and error monitoring are discussed...
Performance monitoring at the task and the response levelCharlotte Desmet
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Rev Neurosci 22:575-81. 2011..We thus argue to approach errors and conflict from a broader perspective...
Methodological and empirical issues when dissociating cue-related from task-related processes in the explicit task-cuing procedureBirte U Forstmann
Department of Cognitive Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Psychol Res 71:393-400. 2007..e., when the "switch" cue is repeated). We discuss the methodological implications and argue that the present approach has merits relative to the previously used 2:1 mapping of cues to tasks...
Errors and conflict at the task level and the response levelCharlotte Desmet
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
J Neurosci 31:1366-74. 2011..In addition, we provide additional evidence for a dissociation between conflict and errors both at the response level and at the task level...
Advance preparation and stimulus-induced interference in cued task switching: further insights from BOLD fMRIHannes Ruge
Department of Cognitive Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Neuropsychologia 43:340-55. 2005..This is because the instructed task set has time to settle into a stable state, thus becoming resistant against disruption from the previous task set, which is retrieved by the current target stimulus...
Hyperimitation of actions is related to reduced understanding of others' minds in autism spectrum conditionsStephanie Spengler
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 68:1148-55. 2010..Thus, it remains unclear whether automatic imitation is enhanced in ASC and how this is related to poorer social abilities...
Resisting motor mimicry: control of imitation involves processes central to social cognition in patients with frontal and temporo-parietal lesionsStephanie Spengler
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Cognitive Neurology, Leipzig, Germany
Soc Neurosci 5:401-16. 2010..These findings provide new insight into the functional processes underlying the control of shared representations and suggest a novel link between embodied and higher-level social cognition...
Why do I like you when you behave like me? Neural mechanisms mediating positive consequences of observing someone being imitatedSimone Kühn
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Soc Neurosci 5:384-92. 2010..Moreover mOFC/vmPFC shows higher effective connectivity with striatum and mid-posterior insula during being imitated compared to not being imitated...
Comprehending prehending: neural correlates of processing verbs with motor stemsShirley Ann Rüschemeyer
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
J Cogn Neurosci 19:855-65. 2007..This result is discussed in light of the involvement of the right temporal cortex in comprehension of metaphoric or figurative language...
The cognitive representation of intending not to act: Evidence for specific non-action-effect bindingSimone Kühn
Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Cognition 117:9-16. 2010..Our results suggest that the representation of non-actions contains a facilitation of the alternative action rather than a suppression of the action in question...
What is matched in direct matching? Intention attribution modulates motor primingRoman Liepelt
Department of Cognitive Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:578-91. 2008..Our findings support a model in which direct matching can be top-down modulated by the observer's interpretation of the observed movement as intended or not...
Selection for cognitive control: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study on the selection of task-relevant informationMarcel Brass
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Cognitive Neurology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
J Neurosci 24:8847-52. 2004..No significant influence was found in the prefrontal cortex, indicating that this region serves a very abstract role in the selection of task-relevant information...
Dissociating mental states related to doing nothing by means of fMRI pattern classificationSimone Kühn
Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Metabolic Imaging, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Neuroimage 53:1294-300. 2010..Hence our data support the implicit assumption of legal practice that voluntary non-action shares important features with overt voluntary action...
Biasing free choices: the role of the rostral cingulate zone in intentional controlJelle Demanet
Ghent University, Belgium
Neuroimage 72:207-13. 2013..This finding suggests that during periods of mind wandering, attention is shifted away from the primary task and external factors can influence the choice process more easily...
Switch probability context (in)sensitivity within the cognitive control networkWouter De Baene
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Electronic address
Neuroimage 77:207-14. 2013..Our results suggest a functional dissociation within the cognitive control network with some brain areas being sensitive to the switch probability context while others are not...
Action-effect coupling in pianistsUlrich C Drost
Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Amalienstrasse 33, 80799, Munich, Germany
Psychol Res 69:233-41. 2005..However, the perception of action effects also evokes processing of abstract features, like the concept of major-minor mode...
When the same response has different meanings: recoding the response meaning in the lateral prefrontal cortexMarcel Brass
Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany
Neuroimage 20:1026-31. 2003..We demonstrate that the lateral prefrontal cortex is involved in recoding of response meaning. These results extend previous assumptions on the role of the prefrontal cortex in behavioral control...
Decomposing components of task preparation with functional magnetic resonance imagingMarcel Brass
Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany
J Cogn Neurosci 16:609-20. 2004....
Equivalence of cognitive processes in brain imaging and behavioral studies: evidence from task switchingIring Koch
Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, Germany
Neuroimage 20:572-7. 2003..We attribute this increase to unspecific distracting factors affecting late motor processes and discuss potential methodological implications of this increased baseline RT in the scanner...
When the choice is ours: context and agency modulate the neural bases of decision-makingBirte U Forstmann
Amsterdam Center for the Study of Adaptive Control in Brain and Behaviour, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PLoS ONE 3:e1899. 2008..After all, it does not only matter whether we have any options to choose from, but also who decides on that...
