Global connectivity of prefrontal cortex predicts cognitive control and intelligenceMichael W Cole
Psychology Department, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
J Neurosci 32:8988-99. 2012
..These findings suggest LPFC is a global hub with a brainwide influence that facilitates the ability to implement control processes central to human intelligence...
Cingulate cortex: diverging data from humans and monkeysMichael W Cole
Psychology Department, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Trends Neurosci 32:566-74. 2009
..New directions for future research are outlined, emphasizing the importance of distinguishing illusory cross-species differences from the true evolutionary differences that make our species unique...
- Identifying the brain's most globally connected regions
Michael W Cole
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Neuroimage 49:3132-48. 2010
..Additionally, the high connectivity of both the CCN and the DMN demonstrates that brain regions outside primary sensory-motor networks are highly involved in coordinating information throughout the brain...
- Prefrontal dynamics underlying rapid instructed task learning reverse with practice
Michael W Cole
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Center for Neuroscience, and Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
J Neurosci 30:14245-54. 2010
..These two mechanisms demonstrate the exceptional flexibility of human PFC as it rapidly reconfigures cognitive brain networks to implement a wide variety of possible tasks...
- Variable global dysconnectivity and individual differences in schizophrenia
Michael W Cole
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Biol Psychiatry 70:43-50. 2011
..We hypothesized that such heterogeneity might arise in part from consistently widespread yet variably patterned alterations in the connectivity of focal brain regions...
The cognitive control network: Integrated cortical regions with dissociable functionsMichael W Cole
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Neuroimage 37:343-60. 2007
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- Vive les differences! Individual variation in neural mechanisms of executive control
Todd S Braver
Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 20:242-50. 2010
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- Rapid transfer of abstract rules to novel contexts in human lateral prefrontal cortex
Michael W Cole
Psychology Department, Washington University in St Louis MO, USA
Front Hum Neurosci 5:142. 2011
..This suggests humans can transfer practiced rule representations within LPFC to rapidly learn new tasks, facilitating cognitive performance in novel circumstances...
