Testing the model of caudo-rostral organization of cognitive control in the human with frontal lesions

Azuar, C; Reyes, P; Slachevsky, A; Volle, E; Kinkingnehun, S; Kouneiher, F; Bravo, E.; Dubois, B; Koechlin, E; Levy R.

Abstract

The cascade model of cognitive control, mostly relying on functional neuroimaging studies, stipulates that the lateral frontal cortex (LFC) is organized as a cascade of executive processes involving three levels of cognitive control, implemented in distinct LFC areas from the premotor to the anterior prefrontal regions. The present experiment tested this model in patients with LFC lesions and studied the hierarchy of executive functions along the caudo-rostral axis, i.e. the respective roles of the different LFC areas in the control of behavior. Voxel-based lesionsymptom mapping and region of interest group analyses were conducted in 32 patients with focal LFC lesions who performed cognitive tasks assessing the cascade model. We first showed that three different LFC areas along the caudo-rostral axis subserved three distinct control levels, whose integrity is necessary for adaptive behavior. Second, we found that prefrontal cognitive control has an asymmetric organization: higher control processes involving more anterior prefrontal regions rely on the integrity of lower control processes in more posterior regions, while lower control processes can operate irrespective of the integrity of higher control processes. Altogether, these findings support a caudo-rostral cascade of executive processes from premotor to anterior prefrontal regions. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Título según WOS: Testing the model of caudo-rostral organization of cognitive control in the human with frontal lesions
Título según SCOPUS: Testing the model of caudo-rostral organization of cognitive control in the human with frontal lesions
Título de la Revista: NEUROIMAGE
Volumen: 84
Editorial: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Fecha de publicación: 2014
Página de inicio: 1053
Página final: 1060
Idioma: English
URL: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1053811913009671
DOI:

10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.031

Notas: ISI, SCOPUS