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Anticipatory Top-Down Interactive Neural Dynamics

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Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (VI)

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Engagement in a cognitive task typically involves configuration of the mental resources needed to perform the task, and switching from one task to another involves the reconfiguration of those resources. It is believed that this configuration and reconfiguration require the prefrontal cortex of the brain to facilitate the activation of distributed brain areas that will be involved in task execution and defacilitate others. Although facilitation and defacilitation may occur during task execution, I consider here that they may also be initiated in advance of, and as preparation for, task execution. This point of view comes from a large-scale, distributed neurocognitive network understanding of brain function that emphasizes processes of task preparation and expectation (or task set) in the brain in addition to processes of perception and action. In short, it requires that a distinction be made between task configuration processes and task execution processes. This paper presents and discusses some convergent lines of evidence suggesting that the prefrontal cortex exerts top-down configuration of sensory and motor brain areas to construct task set, that this configuration depends on top-down brain processes in the beta-frequency range, and that resource configuration may occur when the brain is at rest prior to task execution.

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    Steven L. Bressler

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  1. Division of Neuroscience, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain

    José M. Delgado-García

  2. Institute of Cognitive Neurodynamics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

    Xiaochuan Pan

  3. Division of Neuroscience, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain

    Raudel Sánchez-Campusano

  4. Institute of Cognitive Neurodynamics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

    Rubin Wang

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Bressler, S.L. (2018). Anticipatory Top-Down Interactive Neural Dynamics. In: Delgado-García, J., Pan, X., Sánchez-Campusano, R., Wang, R. (eds) Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (VI). Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8854-4_17

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