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Brief Reports: Anticipating the consequences of action: An fMRI study of intention‐based task preparation
Author(s) -
Ruge Hannes,
Müller Sven C.,
Braver Todd S.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01027.x
Subject(s) - psychology , intraparietal sulcus , task (project management) , action (physics) , cognitive psychology , inferior parietal lobule , superior parietal lobule , task switching , middle frontal gyrus , control (management) , neuroscience , posterior parietal cortex , cognition , computer science , physics , management , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , economics
A key component of task preparation may be to anticipate the consequences of task‐appropriate actions. This task switching study examined whether such type of “intentional” preparatory control relies on the presentation of explicit action effects. Preparatory BOLD activation in a condition with task‐specific motion effect feedback was compared to identical task conditions with accuracy feedback only. Switch‐related activation was found selectively in the effect feedback condition in the middle mid‐frontal gyrus and in the anterior intraparietal sulcus. Consistent with research on attentional control, the posterior superior parietal lobule exhibited switch‐related preparatory activation irrespective of feedback type. To conclude, preparatory control can occur via complementary attentional and intentional neural mechanisms depending on whether meaningful task‐specific action effects lead to the formation of explicit effect representations.