Title
Spatio-temporal brain dynamics in a combined stimulus-stimulus and stimulus-response conflict task.
Abstract
It is yet not well known whether different types of conflicts share common or rely on distinct brain mechanisms of conflict processing. We used a combined Flanker (stimulus–stimulus; S–S) and Simon (stimulus–response; S–R) conflict paradigm both in an fMRI and an EEG study. S–S conflicts induced stronger behavioral interference effects compared to S–R conflicts and the latter decayed with increasing response latencies. Besides some similar medial frontal activity across all conflict trials, which was, however, not statically consistent across trials, we especially found distinct activations depending on the type of conflict. S–S conflicts activated the anterior cingulate cortex and modulated the N2 and early P3 component with underlying source activity in inferior frontal cortex. S–R conflicts produced distinct activations in the posterior cingulate cortex and modulated the late P3b component with underlying source activity in superior parietal cortex. Double conflict trials containing both S–S and S–R conflicts revealed, first, distinct anterior frontal activity representing a meta-processing unit and, second, a sequential modulation of the N2 and the P3b component. The N2 modulation during double conflict trials was accompanied by increased source activity in the medial frontal gyrus (MeFG). In summary, S–S and S–R conflict processing mostly rely on distinct mechanisms of conflict processing and these conflicts differentially modulate the temporal stages of stimulus processing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.071
NeuroImage
Keywords
Field
DocType
S–S conflict,S–R conflict,Flanker,Simon,Double conflict
Brain mapping,Developmental psychology,Psychology,Cognitive psychology,Posterior parietal cortex,Anterior cingulate cortex,Stimulus (physiology),Posterior cingulate,Frontal lobe,P3b,Medial frontal gyrus
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
1
1053-8119
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.55
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sascha Frühholz1223.01
Ben Godde263.24
Mareike Finke330.55
Manfred Herrmann4314.23