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The Dig Task: A Simple Scent Discrimination Reveals Deficits Following Frontal Brain Damage
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2013
In this protocol, a novel application of scent discrimination is described. The Dig task is a reasonably inexpensive task that can be used to assess frontally-mediated cognition following brain damage.
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Frontal Disconnection for Treating Mild Malformation of Cortical Development with Oligodendroglial Hyperplasia in Epilepsy (MOGHE) in the Frontal Lobe
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2024
Here, we present a protocol to describe the epilepsy outcome and complications of 8 patients with mild malformation of cortical development with oligodendroglial hyperplasia in epilepsy (MOGHE) in the frontal lobe after frontal disconnection. The procedure is characterized by its simplicity, user-friendliness, and fewer postoperative complications.
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A Method for Investigating Age-related Differences in the Functional Connectivity of Cognitive Control Networks Associated with Dimensional Change Card Sort Performance
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2014
This video presents a method of examining age-related changes in functional connectivity of cognitive control networks engaged by targeted tasks/processes. The technique is based on multi-variate analysis of fMRI data.
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Time-dependent Increase in the Network Response to the Stimulation of Neuronal Cell Cultures on Micro-electrode Arrays
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2017
Mouse neuronal cells cultured on multi-electrode arrays display an increase in response following electrical stimulation. This protocol demonstrates how to culture neurons, how to record activity, and how to establish a protocol to train the networks to respond to patterns of stimulation.
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Protein Networks
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2020
An organism can have thousands of different proteins, and these proteins must cooperate to ensure the health of an organism. Proteins bind to other proteins and form complexes to carry out their functions. Many proteins interact with multiple other proteins creating a complex network of protein interactions. These interactions can be represented through maps depicting protein-protein interaction networks, represented as nodes and edges. Nodes are circles that are representative of a protein,...
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The network supports goal maintenance by coordinating activity between frontal and parietal cortices while a person performs a task. This coordination helps preserve the current objective, keep relevant information available, and guide behavior toward that objective. When task demands change, the same system can modify its activity so behavior remains directed rather than becoming fixed or purely habitual.
Attention allows the system to select information relevant to the current goal, while working memory keeps task-related representations available for ongoing use. Their interaction supports operations such as maintaining instructions, prioritizing inputs, and updating information when circumstances change. Studying these processes helps explain how coordinated brain activity contributes to complex cognition rather than isolated responses.
Because the system links frontal and parietal regions, cognitive control depends on cooperation across areas rather than on a single location. Coordinated activity allows information about goals, selected inputs, and updated representations to be integrated during a task. This distributed organization is especially relevant when behavior must be adjusted as demands change, providing a framework for studying flexibility in cognition.
Neuroscientists examine this network with neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and connectivity analysis. Neuroimaging can characterize activity in the frontal and parietal cortices, electrophysiology measures neural activity, and connectivity analysis evaluates how regions cooperate. Used together, these approaches provide complementary evidence about where task-related activity occurs and how coordinated interactions support attention, working memory, and cognitive control.
Connectivity analysis examines relationships in activity between regions rather than considering each region independently. For the frontal and parietal cortices, it can help researchers evaluate how strongly or consistently these areas cooperate during complex tasks. This perspective is useful for linking network organization with goal maintenance, information selection, representation updating, and behavioral adjustment.
Researchers compare its organization and activity across development, aging, neurological conditions, and psychiatric disorders. Neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and connectivity measures can identify differences in regional activity or cooperation during demanding tasks. These comparisons help relate network characteristics to individual differences in cognition and clarify how changes in coordinated brain function may accompany altered behavior.