Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EB, UK.
Cereb Cortex. 2011 May;21(5):1155-65. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhq187. Epub 2010 Oct 5.
Evidence suggests that the right inferior frontal cortex (IFC) plays a specialized role in response inhibition. However, more recent findings indicate a broader role for this region in attentional control. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the functional role of the right IFC in attention, inhibition, and response control in 2 experiments that employed novel variations of the go/no-go task. Across the 2 experiments, we observed a graded response in the right insula/IFC, whereby increasing response control demands led to an increase in activation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that this region plays a key role in the integration of bottom-up, sensory information with top-down, response-related information to facilitate flexible, goal-directed behavior.
有证据表明,右侧下额前皮质(IFC)在反应抑制中起着特殊的作用。然而,最近的研究结果表明,该区域在注意力控制中具有更广泛的作用。在这里,我们使用功能磁共振成像技术在两个实验中研究了右侧 IFC 在注意力、抑制和反应控制中的功能作用,这两个实验采用了新的 Go/No-Go 任务变体。在这两个实验中,我们观察到右侧脑岛/IFC 的反应呈梯度变化,即随着反应控制需求的增加,激活程度也随之增加。结果与假设一致,即该区域在整合来自下至上、感觉信息和来自上至下、与反应相关的信息方面发挥着关键作用,以促进灵活的、有目标的行为。