Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neural Mechanisms of Global and Local Processing: A Combined PET and ERP Study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Distributed cortical network for visual attention
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Who Comes First? The Role of the Prefrontal and Parietal Cortex in Cognitive Control
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Task Switching and Novelty Processing Activate a Common Neural Network for Cognitive Control
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Fractionating the Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Distinct neurophysiological mechanisms mediate mixing costs and switch costs
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The timing of neural activity during shifts of spatial attention
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Different brain activities predict retrieval success during emotional and semantic encoding
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Despite the intuition that we can shift cognitive set on instruction, some behavioral studies have suggested that set shifting might only be accomplished once we engage in performance of the new task. It is possible that set switching consists of more than one component cognitive process and that the component processes might segregated in time. We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) during two set-switching tasks to test whether different component processes were responsible for (i) set initiation and reconfiguration when presented with the instruction to switch, and (ii) the implementation of the new set once subjects engaged in performing the new task. The response switching (RS) task required shifts of intentional set; subjects selected between responses according to one of two conflicting intentional sets. The results demonstrated the existence of more than one constituent process. Some of the processes were linked to the initiation and reconfiguration of the set prior to actual performance of the new task. Other processes were time locked to performance of new task items. Set initiation started with modulation of medial frontal ERPs and was followed by modulation over parietal electrodes. Implementation of intentional set was associated with modulation of response-related ERPs.